SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A male Siberian tiger, classified as an endangered species, has died under unknown circumstances at a zoo near Seoul, officials said Tuesday. Seoul Grand Park reported the 10-year-old tiger, named Suho, abruptly died Sunday at the zoo in Gwacheon, south of Seoul. Despite showing no unusual symptoms earlier in [...]
CHEONGJU, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) —One of two Siberian tigers born at Cheongju Zoo in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea, has passed away. The male tiger, named Hoboom, was born in 2007 and died at the age of 15. The zoo stated that Hoboom had been suffering from paralysis in his hind legs before his [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A Siberian tiger that passed away from natural causes at Seoul Grand Park has returned as a taxidermied specimen. Gangsan, a female Siberian tiger that was born at Seoul Grand Park in 2005, passed away at the age of 15 in 2019. The tiger went through a six-month taxidermy [...]
YONGIN, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A Siberian tiger, classified as an Appendix I endangered species, has given birth to five cubs. The zoo of the Everland amusement park in Yongin, south of Seoul, announced that three female and two male cubs were born on June 27. Siberian tigers are known to give birth to [...]
BONGHWA, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Two tigers from Seoul Grand Park Zoo have joined others at the tiger’s forest in the Baekdudaegan National Arboretum in Bonghwa County, North Gyeongsang Province. The arboretum announced on Thursday that Seoul Grand Park donated two Siberian tigers and successfully transferred them to the tiger’s forest as part of [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) Good news for South Koreans who have been looking for some auspicious signs in the run up to the historic summit between leaders of North Korea and US. The good news came from Seoul Grand Park, south of Seoul, where a Siberian tiger named Penza (or called here as Baekdu [...]
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, 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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A female Siberian Tiger kept in Busan’s only zoo, Samjung The Park, is reported to have devoured its own offspring, according to an announcement from the zoo and the Nakdong River Basin Agency of the Ministry of Environment on January 22. The mother tiger gave birth to a cub on December [...]