Topic: Zoos and Aquariums
A zoo in northeastern China has been shut after a spate of Siberian tiger deaths as reports Wednesday said dozens of the dead animals may have been used to make a virility tonic. China's forestry ministry has ordered the zoo in the city of Shenyang to suspend operations and urged the local government to step up a probe into ...
Zookeepers are scrambling to save three seriously ill Siberian tigers at a cash-strapped zoo in northeastern China where 11 of the big cats starved to death recently. The three tigers were shedding fur, had lost their appetites and were listless, the official Xinhua ...
A Chinese zoo where three dozen animals, including 13 endangered Siberian tigers, died from malnutrition is to receive a cash boost of one million dollars, state media said Monday. The China Daily said officials in the northeastern city of Shenyang also have launched a probe into the deaths, which spotlighted poor conditions in the country's often underfunded zoos in ...
