CHEONGJU, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — With wild animals entering their breeding season between May and July, young offspring are getting lost or hurt in accidents in downtown or residential areas due to various development projects and the destruction of their habitat. The Wildlife Center of Chungbuk reported that 670 out of 881 wild animals [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Metal fences set up across hills and pig farms in Gangwon Province to contain the spread of the African swine fever (ASF) are posing a risk to the survival of wild animals other than boars. Elk residing in mountainous areas and other wild animals need to descend to the [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Incheon’s Wildlife Rescue Center is stepping up its campaign to protect young wild animals to mark the summer season, the breeding season for wild animals. According to the center on Wednesday, 83 out of 356 wild animals that have been rescued since the opening of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
CHEONGJU, South Korea, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Birds designated in South Korea as natural monuments are suffering injuries, and sometimes death, as more of them choose to live in close proximity to humans. These birds include brown hawk-owls (natural monument 324-3), which pay a visit to the peninsula in May and take off to [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean actor Lee Min-ho is the main presenter for MBC’s upcoming three-part documentary on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) – the 4-kilometer wide, 250-kilometer long no man’s land that divides the Korean Peninsula in two. Dubbed DMZ, The Wild, the production of the series took roughly two years. The 30-year-old [...]
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 [...]
SEJONG, Nov.9 (Korea Bizwire) - Since the ‘Korean Peninsula Wetlands’ of Yeongwol-gu in Gangwon Province were designated as a protection area in 2012, the number of endangered wild animals there has tripled. According to the National Institute of Environmental Research, 12 species of endangered wild animals were found when a detailed investigation of the wetlands [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Inje County Office in Gangwon Province will operate a task force from May 20 to the end of October to seize harmful wild animals. The team is comprised of 20 members of the Wildlife Management Association, and will be dispatched to the scene where wild animals are damaging [...]