The Chinese government has spent millions of dollars donated by zoos in the United States for protecting pandas in the wild on a myriad of expenditures unrelated to conservation, according to a report.
A report by the New York Times, which combed through $86 million worth of financial reports between U.S. zoos and a pair of organizations run by the Chinese government over the past two decades, revealed that the money donated to China was instead used on apartment buildings, roads, and computers, among other things.
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