SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government announced on July 7 an improvement plan to strengthen animal protection and foster related industries at the 10th Annual Meeting of Trade and Investment Organizations. The plan includes changing the current reporting system in the pet breeding industry to a license system, legally permitting the online [...]
GIMHAE, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The Bugyeong Pig Farming Association (BPFA) from Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, has launched for the first time in Korea what it’s calling ‘Animal Welfare-Certified Pork’. These pork products were developed at the ‘Together Happy Farm’ (translated from Korean), which was certified as an ‘animal welfare farm’ on June 30. [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Zoo, located in Seoul Grand Park, recently revealed that 286 of its animals have died since May 2015. That’s also 5.4 percent of all the animals managed by the zoo. The zoo also revealed that 132, or 46 percent, of the dead animals were globally endangered species, 30 [...]
CHANGWON, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A dozen spot-billed ducks (anas poecilorhyncha) appeared on a busy city street in Changwon on Thursday afternoon. It turned out that eleven little ones, led by their mother, were moving from a pond by the Nakdong River Basin Environmental Office to an eco-pond next to Gyeongsangnam-do Provincial Hall, in [...]
SEJONG, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The research arms of South Korea and the United States devoted to dealing with wildlife diseases, have joined together to cooperate in tackling avian influenza, rabies and other animal-transmitted diseases, a state-run think tank said Thursday. The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) signed a letter of intent early [...]
BUSAN, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise, or simply finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides), is one of seven porpoise species. These porpoises are mainly found around the Korean Peninsula, especially in Korea’s West Sea, and because of their long-lasting relationship with the Korean people, they’re often referred to as ‘native dolphins’, or sometimes ‘smiling [...]
CHANGNYEONG, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A new rice paddy has appeared in Jumae village, Changnyeong County, North Gyeongsang Province. But it’s not just a rice paddy for farming. It’s going to be a habitat for crested ibis, an endangered species of migratory bird that once flourished in Korea. Crested ibis are also designated as [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Animal rights organizations are demanding that an E-mart pet shop brand called Molly’s Pet Shop stop selling animals in display windows, and change into a pet supply store instead. These organizations including CARE, KARA, the Korean Animal Welfare Association, and Action for Animals gathered in front of E-mart’s headquarters in [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs revealed on May 18 that it plans to implement an ‘animal nurse’ policy, in which non-veterinarian assistants perform basic medical treatments such as blood gathering and teeth scaling. The goal of the plan is to strengthen animal welfare as well as [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid escalating controversy over animal cruelty at Korea’s dog breeding farms, also referred to locally as ‘dog factories’, the overall state of maintenance and supervision of such farms is facing wide criticism. Responsible organizations have taken a hands-off approach to the supervision of dog farms, invariably citing ‘lack of [...]