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Putin calls for preventing polar bears in wildlife
Press Trust India
Moscow, Mar 16 (Itar-Tass) Voicing his concern over the rapid decline in polar bear population, which has brought the Ursidain on “verge of extinction”, the Russian Prime Minister has called to prevent the disappearance of the carnivours in wildlife.
Speaking at a session of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society yesterday, [...]
China zoo shut amid allegations it harvested tiger parts
BEIJING, March 17 (AFP) – 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 [...]
3 tigers very ill at Chinese zoo where 11 starved
(AP)
BEIJING — Zookeepers are scrambling to save three seriously ill Siberian tigers at a cash-strapped zoo in northeast 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 News Agency reported late Monday.
Eleven of the 30 Siberian tigers at [...]
China funds zoo after Siberian tigers die: reports
(AP)
BEIJING — A municipal government in northeastern China has allocated 7 million yuan ($1 million) to improve conditions at a local zoo after the recent deaths of 11 rare Siberian tigers and other animals, state media said Sunday.
The Siberian tigers at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo starved to death in the past three months, [...]
Eleven tigers starve to death at China zoo
BEIJING (Reuters) – At least 11 tigers have died of hunger and malnutrition in a Chinese zoo so far this year, the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar, local media reported on Thursday.
China’s wild tiger population is dwindling, but a number of tigers still live in zoos and breeding centres in the northeast.
Some [...]
Goa zoo gets a pair of sloth bear from Hyderabad
Panaji, March 10 (PTI) Bondla zoo in Goa has added a pair of sloth bear procured under an exchange programme from Hyderbad-based Nehru Zoological park, forest officials said.
The Goa zoo would, in turn, offer a pair of bison to its counterpart in Hyderabad.
The 8-sq-km zoo, tucked in Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, had a female sloth bear [...]
Zoo gets three new inmates
LankaTimes.com
Today, the National Zoological Gardens in Dehiwela will get three ring-tailed lemurs (lemur catta)-two females and one male-from the Rare Species Breeding Centre in London, through an animal exchange programme.
Education Officer of the Zoo Nihal Senerath told The Island yesterday that in return they had given a pair of giant squirrels and a rusty spotted [...]
Cobra dies without mate at Solapur zoo
Prafulla Marpakwar- The Times of India
MUMBAI: A 16-foot long King Cobra, which was gifted ‘freedom’ by the Bombay high court had four days before Valentine’s Day last month, has died at the Mahatma Gandhi Zoo in Solapur. On Wednesday, when the PIL filed by nature lover Gururaj Pore comes up for hearing, there will be [...]
Hungry tiger kills zoo keeper
BEIJING, March 7 –An animal keeper was bitten to death by a hungry tiger at Shanghai Zoo this morning.
The 53-year-old victim surnamed Li was about to clean the tiger cage and feed the animal at about 8:15 a.m. when the bengal tiger inside suddenly jumped out and bit him in the neck, witnesses said.
The tiger [...]
Alcoholic chimpanzee to be taken to treatment clinic from Russian zoo
MOSCOW, February 26 (RIA Novosti)
Frequent “treats” by visitors of a Russian zoo made one of its resident, Zhora the chimpanzee, an alcoholic and nicotine addict, a Russian daily has said.
Zoo authorities in the Russian city of Rostov (200 km northeast of Moscow) were quoted by Komsomolskaya Pravda as saying Zhora, who had been brought to [...]
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It's great that these animals have been given an additional opportunity to survive. 
i think the baby elephant should be named ; ABENI This is an african meaning for" miracle girl prayed for ...
I have been in Naples Zoo already and I've seen panthers there!!I really had a good time visiting the place!!And ...
I was very sorry to hear of this. We have been so blessed at our San Diego Zoo, and ...
The gorilla exhibit at the Louisville Zoo is very attractive. This just makes it better.
Allen Nyhuis, Coauthor: America's Best Zoos 
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