Zoo moves out tiger, lions to threaten back lent land

By Jane Chen | April 12, 2010, Monday |

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STAFF of a central China zoo has moved a Siberian tiger and two lions as well as a dozen ostriches to its neighboring sports center to threaten the center to give back the land it borrowed two decades ago.

About 100 workers of Zhengzhou Zoo in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province's capital, broke into a bicycle course of the Henan Modern Pentathlon Administration Center on Saturday night and moved in the animals in cages, today's Henan Business Daily reported.

They hang a banner on the cages reading "give the 50-mu land back to zoo and return the green spaces to the public."

They fed the animals with meat and water as normally conducted in the zoo, the workers told the newspaper.

The workers said the center had borrowed the land from the zoo in 1984 to build the course for a bicycle contest. Though the center agreed to return it two years later, it never kept the promise.

They got even angry when learning the center is building bars along the streets in the area in a commercial development plan.

The zoo is urgently in need of spaces because of the increase of large-size animals, they said.

The bicycle center's Party secretary surnamed Li told the newspaper it was the then Zhengzhou and Hunan provincial government that coordinated the land rent deal. And it was agreed a same size of land will be returned at some other places else to the zoo, rather than the land now occupied by the center. Li said the zoo should turn to the governments for the land.

A zoo worker surnamed Li told the newspaper the zoo wanted the land back to build a center to promote animal knowledge among youngsters. The center will open free of charge, he said.

Zoo officials declined to comment, saying the move was initiated by the workers.

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Zoo moves out tiger, lions to threaten back lent land

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