Asia

S. Koreas largest aquarium opens at Yeosu Expo site

South Korea’s largest aquarium opened at the 2012 Yeosu Expo site on Friday, about a week ahead of the official kickoff of the three-month-long international fair. Hanwha Engineering & Construction Corp., which built the aquarium, said the Aqua Planet is a four-story building covering 16,400 square meters and equipped with a 6,000 ton main tank. [...]

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Singer Morrissey urges closure of Indonesian zoo

(AFP) JAKARTA — British singer Morrissey called on the Indonesian government Tuesday to immediately shut down a notorious zoo in eastern Java where hundreds of animals have died or disappeared. The former frontman of seminal indie band The Smiths, whose 1985 album is entitled “Meat is Murder”, made the request in a letter to Forestry [...]

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Mysore Zoo, the real crowd puller

Source: The Times of India MYSORE: If the record footfall of 3 billion in the previous fiscal year is any indication, the century-old Mysore Zoo has become an all time favourite destination for tourists across the globe. The figure in 2010-11 stood at 2.6 million whereas the number at Patna zoo, Sakkarbaug zoo (Gujarat), Nandankanan [...]

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City zoo to get new facilities

Source: The Times of India RAJKOT: The Rajkot Zoological Park will soon house a modern veterinary hospital, four new enclosures for animals and six visitors’ shed. The foundation stones for these new facilities were laid on Sunday by minister of state for environment and forests Kiritsinh Rana. RMC officials said the new veterinary hospital will [...]

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Nightmare zoo in Indonesia shaken by giraffe death

SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — The tigers are emaciated and the 180 pelicans packed so tightly they cannot unfurl their wings without hitting a neighbor. Last week, a giraffe died with a beachball-sized wad of plastic food wrappers in its belly. That death has focused new attention on the scandalous conditions at Indonesia’s largest zoo. Set [...]

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Dozens of animals seized from private zoo

Associated Press BANGKOK – More than 200 animals, including kangaroos, flamingos, red pandas, and white lions, were seized from a private zoo Thursday in a wildlife bust. Most of the animals were nonnative species intended to be sold domestically or smuggled elsewhere. Thailand is a hub of the international black market for protected animals. More [...]

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Japan zoo tries to drum up alligators’ interest in sex

(AFP) TOKYO — A Japanese zoo has turned to rhythmical banging on traditional drums in a bid to encourage some enthusiasm for sex among lust-lacking alligators. Zookeepers said Wednesday they hoped the low booming sound produced by large Japanese “taiko” drums would spur lethargic Chinese alligators to begin mating because of its similarity to the [...]

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Plastic found in Surabaya Zoo giraffe’s stomach

Source: Jakarta Post Up to 20 kilograms of plastic was found in the stomach of a giraffe named Kliwon, who died in his stall at Surabaya Zoo on Thursday evening. Kliwon was the last giraffe at the East Java provincial capital’s tourist attraction. “The plastic was apparently in the food he’d been eating for years [...]

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Zoo’s plastic-free scheme evokes good response

Source: The Times of India MYSORE: Mysore Zoo’s innovative scheme to make the facility a complete plastic-free zone has evoked good response. After it stopped allowing visitors from taking plastic or polythene bags inside the zoo, authorities have now come up with the novel idea, which is being well received by public and visitors. Zoo [...]

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Mysore Zoo website relaunched

Source: The Times of India MYSORE: Mysore Zoo has relaunched its official website adding the facility of online adoption of animals. The new website (www.mysorezoo.info) offers maps depicting different routes to the zoo. Students and wildlife enthusiasts can access the details of educative programmes organized by the zoo on conservation, workshops, competitions, and others. The [...]

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Zoo train hits visitor busy on cell

Source: Deccan Chronicle A retired RTC employee from Karimnagar was hit by the joyride train in Nehru Zoological Park, while he was walking on the tracks talking on his cellphone on Sunday. The man, identified as Mr Venkatswamy, is in a critical condition with head injuries. The mishap occurred when Mr Venkatswamy was walking along [...]

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Zoo gets leopard cats

Source: The Times of India LUCKNOW: Nine-year-old Bhairavi, along with her five-year-old partner, Bhaskar walked in at Lucknow zoo on Friday. They are a pair of leopard cats from the north-east. The ‘prolific breeders’, or that’s how their profile describes them, were brought from Tripura zoo to Lucknow. The schedule (I) species is the first-time [...]

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Hanoi zoo tiger tries to climb over fence (video)

Source: tuoitrenews.vn Nguyen Hoang Giang, a student in Hanoi, said he filmed the extraordinary scene at 4pm on November 12 at Thu Le Park located in Ba Dinh District. As shown by the clip, a tiger weighing around 50 kilos climbed up his iron cage at a height of 9m from the ground and tried [...]

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China to lend two giant pandas to French zoo: director

(AFP) TOURS, France — China and France have agreed a high-level deal for Beijing to lend two giant pandas to a French zoo for 10 years starting from early 2012, the zoo’s director said on Wednesday. The pair will be the first pandas sent to France since the death of Yen Yen in 2000, who [...]

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Zoo to embark on efforts to add to its intense look

Source: The Times of India KANPUR: In an initiative to give Kanpur Zoological Garden the intense look of a jungle, the Kanpur zoo authorities have decided to implement a few novel ideas. They will go for new spacious enclosures for wild animals and plant more greenery. The present efforts of the Kanpur zoo have been [...]

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‘Boding luck’: Baby zebra born on a special date

By APP ISLAMABAD: The birth of a zebra foal on 11.11.11 took everyone at Marghazar Zoo by surprise on Friday. It was predicted by the experts that 11.11.11 would break the birth records around the world and the date might impact the lives of newborns as well. Talking to APP, Dr Bilal from Environment Wing [...]

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Conservationists slam moves to ban India tiger tourism

(AFP) NEW DELHI — Conservationists and wildlife tour operators warned Monday that moves to restrict tiger tourism in India to protect the endangered big cats would have the opposite effect. “Banning tiger tourism would be a disaster,” said Belinda Wright, director of the Wildlife Protection Society of India. “Tourism acts as a conservation tool and [...]

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Animal Deaths Do Little to Ease Surabaya Zoo Squeeze

Source: The Jakarta Globe Surabaya. If a zoo loses several endangered animals, all dying of unknown causes, you would probably expect its managers to happily welcome new additions to their collection. The Surabaya Zoo, however, is not your typical zoo. “If there is an animal that gives birth, it troubles us because we don’t know [...]

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CCTV camera likely to be installed at zoo

Source: The Times of India KANPUR: The authorities of Kanpur Zoological Garden have decided to install 15 CCTV cameras at an estimated cost of Rs 10 lakh to check the activities of unruly visitors and curb the incidents of eve-teasing at zoo. A final decision in this regard would be taken at the executive committee [...]

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Delhi zoo to get chinkaras, wild boars

Source: The Times of India NEW DELHI: Visitors to the National Zoological Park in the city will soon get to see a few new faces. The park is participating in two exchange programmes – one with Gwalior Zoo and another with the one in Raipur – to get the new animals to the Delhi zoo. [...]

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Shaurya, Navya charmall at Patna zoo

Source: The Times of India PATNA: The newly-born baby male rhino and female giraffe at Patna zoo have been named ‘Shaurya’ and ‘Navya’, respectively. Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi announced these names, chosen by Patnaites themselves, on Sunday at the zoo during the concluding ceremony of the fortnight-long celebration of ‘Wildlife week-2011′. Addressing the media [...]

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Cambodian cattle herds offer hope for tiger: WWF

(AFP) PHNOM PENH — Large herds of wild cattle in eastern Cambodia mean the area could be one of the best places in Asia for a recovery in tiger populations, conservation group World Wildlife Fund said on Monday. There may be no more than five tigers living in the wild in the eastern plains areas [...]

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