Funds injection to aid stricken tiger zoo
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March 15, 2010, Monday
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THE Shenyang municipal government in northeast China has allocated 7 million yuan (US$1.03 million) to assist a zoo in protecting animals after 11 Siberian tigers and other animals died of malnutrition due to a lack of funds.
Zhang Jinghui, secretary-general of the government, said yesterday that 5 million yuan would be spent on the protection of animals in the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in the capital of Liaoning Province.
The rest would be used to facilitate its management and operations.
The municipal government has established three work teams to save and treat animals in poor condition, probe the reason behind the tiger deaths and take over part of the zoo management, according to the official.
The animal protection officials said on Thursday that 11 Siberian tigers, an engendered species with a worldwide population of only between 350 to 450, died of malnutrition in the zoo over the past three months.
The zoo, which is mainly privately owned with the Shenyang municipal government having a 15-percentshare, only fed the tigers on cheap chicken bones as the facility was financially challenged.
Since November, Shenyang Qipanshan Administration Committee has been providing the zoo with appropriate feed worth of 18,000 yuan a day.
However, many of the tigers already had intestinal infections or kidney failure caused by a lack of food and died anyway.
Twenty-six animals of 15 species perished at the zoo.
Some of the dead animals, including a red-crowned crane, four stump-tailed macaques, a rhesus monkey and a brown bear, were under state protection, according to the zoo.
Zhang Jinghui, secretary-general of the government, said yesterday that 5 million yuan would be spent on the protection of animals in the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in the capital of Liaoning Province.
The rest would be used to facilitate its management and operations.
The municipal government has established three work teams to save and treat animals in poor condition, probe the reason behind the tiger deaths and take over part of the zoo management, according to the official.
The animal protection officials said on Thursday that 11 Siberian tigers, an engendered species with a worldwide population of only between 350 to 450, died of malnutrition in the zoo over the past three months.
The zoo, which is mainly privately owned with the Shenyang municipal government having a 15-percentshare, only fed the tigers on cheap chicken bones as the facility was financially challenged.
Since November, Shenyang Qipanshan Administration Committee has been providing the zoo with appropriate feed worth of 18,000 yuan a day.
However, many of the tigers already had intestinal infections or kidney failure caused by a lack of food and died anyway.
Twenty-six animals of 15 species perished at the zoo.
Some of the dead animals, including a red-crowned crane, four stump-tailed macaques, a rhesus monkey and a brown bear, were under state protection, according to the zoo.
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