WONJU, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment plans to carry out a restoration project in limestone mines which will involve replanting endangered species of plants that had have been wiped out from the area. The Wonju Regional Environmental Office (WREO), jointly with the Nature Environment Research Park and Halla Cement Corp., South [...]
JEJU, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Claiming that endangered species inhabit the site of the Bijarim Road expansion project on Jeju Island, which was suspended due to controversy over damage to a redwood forest more than two months ago, the government urged Jeju to stop construction work, investigate the situation and come up with countermeasures. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The pelagic cormorant has been chosen as a species to protect by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. The decision was made to protect the decreasing number of pelagic cormorants due to climate change. The pelagic cormorant is also registered on the watch list of the International Union for [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The demilitarized zone between North and South Korea is home to 5,929 species of wild organisms, including 101 species on the brink of extinction. This is according to a study carried out by the National Institute of Ecology between 2014 and 2017 in various areas of the DMZ. Resources [...]
SEOUL, August 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Grand Park announced that a lynx and a siamang, which are registered on the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) endangered list, have given birth in Korea for the first time. A siamang (the largest gibbon) currently living at Seoul Grand Park, [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – An abandoned mine area in Gangwon Province is hoping to return to its previous glory, this time as a sanctuary for endangered animals. On Wednesday June 14, the Wonju Regional Environmental Office released Parnassius bremeri butterflies, Manchurian trout, and Chinese minnows across the High1 Resort area with the help of [...]
BUSAN, Nov.16 (Korea Bizwire) – A slow loris, an internationally endangered monkey species, was recently found at a market in Busan. It was the third time that one of the endangered monkeys has been found, after earlier incidents on November 3 and 13. The slow loris monkey was hiding behind a refrigerator at a fried [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — China succeeded in artificially breeding 70 Siberian Tiger cubs this year, according to Xinhua. The Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin added more than 70 cubs to its population this year during the breeding season in May and June. The zoo will let the cubs stay with their mothers for 100 [...]
HONGSEONG, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Endangered Longtail tadpole shrimp are beginning to reappear in more regions in Korea. After a colony of longtail tadpole shrimp was found in Sancheong, Gyeongsamnam-do in 2004, they have been spotted in large numbers in towns known for organic farming and clean environment, and on June 23, they were [...]