Critter News
APRIL 11, 2010
It is an irony not lost on the Chinese public that the Year of the Tiger has not been good for the big cats. On Tuesday, state media reported that dozens of tigers and other endangered animals had died of malnutrition over the past two years at the Northern Forest Zoo in the Chinese city of Harbin.
Critter News
AUGUST 27, 2009
Tigers are not safe anywhere. A Sumatran female at the Taman Rimbo Zoo was drugged by poachers, slaughtered and harvested for her parts. Tags: zoos wildlife crime poaching tigers indonesia. Just awful.
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Critter News
JULY 2, 2009
Things have been tough at the San Francisco Zoo after Tatiana the Siberian tiger attacked those three people in 2007. Here's an article that explains the hard times the Zoo has faced since then. The zoo's budget fell into the red as it tried to recover. Tags: zoos california san francisco tigers.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 12, 2009
It's bad enough to send animals to zoos, but to a zoo in Baghdad?? It makes me sick thinking about the animals already there (numbering 1,500 including lions and tigers.). Tags: zoos iraq.
Critter News
AUGUST 17, 2010
A private zoo operator in Taiwan cross-bred lions and tigers, resulting in three "liger" cubs. Tags: zoos taiwan tigers lion endangered species. One died and the other two were seized for sheltering at a research institution. Both species are endangered and it is illegal to cross breed them. From Focus Taiwan.
Critter News
OCTOBER 10, 2008
Vladimir Putin, former President and current Prime Minister of Russia, just got a tiger cub for his birthday. He'll be donating it to a zoo or a wildlife preserve. He told journalists that Koni has not met the tiger cub. Once the tiger was asleep, Putin placed a collar with a GPS tracking system around her neck.
Animal Person
MARCH 27, 2009
The only way most of us will ever see an elephant (or a tiger or a hippo) is on the National Geographic Channel, at a circus or in a zoo. But most zoos and circuses today, including ours, are delicately sensitive to animal well-being. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.
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