Hong Kong is the next stop on the 1,600 Pandas World Tour,
an exhibition by French artist Paulo Grangeon that has
previously been displayed in Taiwan, Germany, France,
the Netherlands, Switzerland and France since 2008.
The project was first organised by conservation group the
World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF), which wanted to bring attention
to a 2004 survey that determined there were only 1,600
pandas left living in the wild. The panda sculptures are made
from 'Papier Mâché' which consists of a recycled
paper pulp. The pandas will visit 10 landmarks in Hong Kong this
June.
A toddler plays with the panda bears in Dresden, Germany in
September 2013.
A child runs among the pandas in Rome's Piazza del Popolo
in April 2009.
A young girl makes a circular construction with some of
the panda figures in front of Berlin's main railway station on
August 5, 2013.
Each one of the pandas is hand-painted.
Visitors in Taipei, Taiwan take photos of the bears in
front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall on March 15,
2014.
For the Taipei stop on the tour, 200 paper Taiwanese black
bears were added to the exhibition.
Local residents look at artist Paulo Grangeon's paper
pandas at a park in Taipei on February 21,
2014
Pandas are displayed outside Taipei City Hall on February
28, 2014.
The pandas take over a city street.
