The video was grainy, shot on what looked like a repurposed drone camera. It showed the inside of a derelict ranger station in the Virunga mountains. And sitting on a worn-out couch, eating bamboo smuggled from a botanical garden in Kigali, was a panda.

By dawn, the ring was dismantled. Interpol later called it the strangest takedown in history.

The storyline follows , a young, naïve giant panda living in an idyllic sanctuary within China. The status quo is disrupted when Pang's best friend, a young female dragon named Jielong , is kidnapped by an ambitious baboon rogue. Jielong is transported across oceans to become a companion pet for a capricious young lion prince on the African Savannah.