你想成为"熊猫爱心大使"吗?

目前，熊猫面临绝种危险，全球只剩下1900多只。熊猫爱心大使主要是熊猫的“代言人”。宣传熊猫的事迹,呼吁世界团结起来，保护熊猫。

Finalists of a global competition to select China's first "panda ambassador" have been undergoing training and assessment at the Panda base in the southwest China's Sichuan Province, the homeland of the giant pandas.

Cleaning is the first assignment at the panda base for Ali Shakorian, a student from Sweden, and two other finalists from Japan and South Africa.

Ali thinks that being a panda keeper would be the most interesting job in the world.

"I wish I could do this all the time. Really it's so amazing to be with the pandas, such delicate creatures. They give you so much love back when you feed them and they are so happy to eat like the apples and the cakes."　he says.

Feeding is one of the most enjoyable parts of training, and a great opportunity for the finalists to get closer to the pandas.

Other finalists are being taught to prepare food for pandas at the panda kitchen.

While most people know that pandas eat bamboo, the panda team also prepares “panda cakes”, which are made from corn and rice flour, egg, milk powder, honey and sunflower seeds, to supplement the animals' diet.

The trainees shape the dough, pressing them into cakes.

Finalist Ashley Robertson, from the United States, says she often wants to taste the cakes, because they smell so good.

Finalist Annelijn Steenbruggen, a photographer from the Netherlands, feeds fruit to the pandas with a special fishing pole.

"I'm so excited and I can't explain (it) in words! If you can feel my heart beating you will know how excited I am. I have everywhere chicken skin (goose bumps) because of my excitement and I feel so...they are so cute! They are so lovely!" she says.

Nearly 62,000 people applied to become "panda ambassadors" when the competition was launched in August.

A month later 12were selected to take part in this training week.

The competition was organized by the Research Centre for the Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).