All Posts Tagged With: "department of agriculture"

USDA cites Topeka Zoo for failing to keep intruders from cutting fence, entering grounds

By Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Federal regulators have cited the Topeka Zoo for two incidents, including one in which a school group was allowed onto the grounds while a bobcat was missing from its cage. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that someone cut the perimeter fence May 6 and freed a bobcat. The animal [...]

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Zoo under fire

City councilor wants to place blame for giraffe deaths By KEVIN CANFIELD and SARA PLUMMER – Tulsa World City Councilor Bill Christiansen said Tuesday that he expects someone to be held accountable for the second giraffe who died at the Tulsa Zoo. “We pay a lot of money to people out there to make sure [...]

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Zoo aiming for transparency

By James Carlson – Topeka Capital Journal There was life and death in a recent Topeka Zoo report sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A giraffe will soon be born. A monkey has died. These were just two tidbits contained in an Oct. 16 update sent to the USDA by zoo director Mike Coker. [...]

3Nov2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

L.A. Zoo had to pay federal fine over animal deaths

The $3,281 payment was made as part of a 2008 settlement with the USDA over the 2006 deaths of a popular Asian elephant and a chimpanzee. The zoo did not admit to wrongdoing. By Carla Hall – LA Times The Los Angeles Zoo paid a federal fine of several thousand dollars in the wake of [...]

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