To start how I wish to continue.

If you fell across this searching for information on pandas, I'll give you some, although this has to be both the first and the last time.

On the 7th of September 2008, it was the 40th anniversary of the WWF. By this I mean the World Wide Fund for Nature, and not the wrestling orginization, which is not nearly as old.

For the celebrations, those-who-decide decided in all their wonderful wisdom to create 1,600 pandas out of paper and let them loose on the streets of Bordeaux.

Isn't it brilliant? On a darker note, the number 1,600 is the predicted number of pandas alive in the wild today. That's not even enough to fill Bordeaux, and I've been there, it's really not THAT big.
At least the cruelty of this statistic is lost on this fella:

First and indeed, last.