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Rescued starving tigers near collapse
By Wang Xiang |
March 16, 2010, Tuesday
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ANOTHER three Siberian tigers are dying after Shenyang city government took over a zoo where 11 of the rare species were deliberately starved to death to win government funding.
Around 30 Siberian tigers remaining in the zoo are getting a full health check, but experts warn that three are on the edge of collapse because of malnutrition.
The city government has allocated 7 million yuan (US$1.02 million) to run Shenyang City Zoo, feeding the tigers five kilograms of beef and two chickens for every meal.
But some tigers in the Liaoning Province zoo are still too weak to eat by themselves, officials said.
Zoo staff returned to work yesterday after the government took over. They went on strike on March 5 because the zoo delayed several months of salaries.
The zoo boss deliberately starved the tigers and other rare animals to death to bargain with the government to pay the zoo's debts, according to earlier media reports.
Around 30 Siberian tigers remaining in the zoo are getting a full health check, but experts warn that three are on the edge of collapse because of malnutrition.
The city government has allocated 7 million yuan (US$1.02 million) to run Shenyang City Zoo, feeding the tigers five kilograms of beef and two chickens for every meal.
But some tigers in the Liaoning Province zoo are still too weak to eat by themselves, officials said.
Zoo staff returned to work yesterday after the government took over. They went on strike on March 5 because the zoo delayed several months of salaries.
The zoo boss deliberately starved the tigers and other rare animals to death to bargain with the government to pay the zoo's debts, according to earlier media reports.
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