Zoo sends in lions over land dispute

By Jane Chen | April 12, 2010, Monday |

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ZOO workers in central China moved a Siberian tiger, two lions and a dozen ostriches into a neighboring sports center in a bid to settle a land dispute with the center.

About 100 workers from Zhengzhou Zoo in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province, moved the caged animals into Henan Modern Pentathlon Administration Center on Saturday night, today's Henan Business Daily reported.

They hung a banner on the cages reading: "Give 50 mu of land back to the zoo and return green spaces to the public."

They fed the animals with meat and water as usual, the workers told the newspaper.

Zoo workers said the center borrowed the land from the zoo in 1984 to build a course for a bicycle championship, but did not keep its promise to return the land two years later.

The zoo urgently needs more space because of the increase in large animals, they said.

The bicycle center's Party secretary Li Jian told the newspaper that the Zhengzhou and Hunan provincial government had coordinated the land rent deal.

The agreement was to return a similar sized parcel of land to the zoo, not the original plot, Li said, so the zoo should turn to the governments concerned.

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Zoo sends in lions over land dispute

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