SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — According to the Korea Expressway Corporation, highway roadkill accidents are typically most frequent in May and June. In addition, there were an average of 2,180 cases of roadkill per year between 2013 and 2017. Water deer were affected the most, accounting for a staggering 89 percent of all roadkill [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Bus driver Yang Dong-hwan, 59 years old, was driving at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour near the Hamyang Intersection on the Daejeon-Tongyong Highway at 5 a.m. on May 5 when he ran into a large, black wild animal. Yang, in an interview, said that he didn’t even [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The director general of the Korea Bear Breeding Cooperative Association was fined for extracting bile from Asiatic black bears without having the authority to do, selling the substance to producers of cosmetics products. The Supreme Court revealed Sunday that it confirmed the original verdict of 1 million one in [...]
BOEUN, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Officials at Songrisan National Park are struggling to capture deer of a foreign species that are threatening the wildlife in the region. The deer are descendants of a breed that was imported from Taiwan in the 1970s for the sole purpose of collecting their antlers, which are known for [...]
BONGHWA, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Visitors to the Baekdudaegan National Arboretum will soon be able to come face to face with Siberian tigers roaming wild in the 4.8-hectare forest, equivalent in size to seven football fields. The arboretum celebrated its opening yesterday with a ceremony attended by over 1,000 people including arboretum officials and [...]
SEJONG, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The paradigm to restore the population of the endangered Asiatic black bear (also known as the Asian black bear) is to shift from merely being population-centric to a system that focuses on expanding the habitat of the rare species. The revised model will enable bears to better coexist with [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is facing calls from animal advocacy groups to end animal testing. The Korea Association for Animal Protection (KAAP) has criticized South Korea over the growing number of animal experiments conducted in the country. “Cruel animal experiments which only serve the interests of human beings are irresponsible and unnecessary [...]
BONGHWA, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s forest authorities said Tuesday they plan to open an arboretum with two Siberian tigers strolling in a “tiger forest” in southeastern South Korea next week as part of efforts to preserve the endangered species in the wild. The Korea Forest Service will open to the public on [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean capital has announced plans to test hundreds of abandoned animals in the city for infections. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said on Sunday it will test up to 1,500 animals including stray cats, abandoned animals and pets as part of efforts to control the spread of zoonotic diseases. [...]
SEJONG, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of livestock in South Korea rose on-year in the first quarter of 2018 due to more calves being bred, government data showed Thursday. The data by Statistics Korea revealed there were just under 2.91 million cattle in the country at the end of March, up 0.9 percent, [...]