DAEJEON, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of incidences in which dangerous animals have escaped from zoos in Daejeon have begun to strike fear in the residents of the city. Because the cases were due to poor facility management, critics have said more realistic measures need to be set in place to rectify the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A male elephant previously known to be healthy and housed at Seoul Grand Park, a popular zoo in South Korea, died suddenly on Sunday, zoo officials revealed yesterday. The Asian elephant named Gazaba, born in 2004 in Sri Lanka, had made the zoo its home since 2010 when it [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The first baby elephant born at Seoul Children’s Grand Park in 23 years has been named Kori by a committee of children, park officials said Friday. After Kori was born to a pair of elephants from Cambodia — 28-year-old male Camdori and 34-year-old female Camsuni — on January 27, [...]
GWANGJU, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A zoo in South Korea is under fire after reports that a tigress ate her own cub soon after giving birth due to negligence and stress. According to officials at Gwangju Uchi Park, a 9-year-old female Bengal tiger named Love gave birth to a cub in her den last Thursday, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – After a severe outbreak of avian influenza (AI) at the end of last year, Seoul Grand Park is preparing for the future by using nearly 100 billion won to install a quarantine area for infected birds. The culling that followed the discovery of the disease was costly, as the [...]
YONGIN, South Korea, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Covered in snow and newly-built ice walls, Everland has just introduced a “Snow Safari” adventure for an opportunity to witness at close distance some 40 of its wild beasts, including brown bears and tigers, roaming around in a winter world. In addition to the Snow Safari, Everland [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea’s state news agency, reported Monday that the country opened a new Central Zoo and Nature Museum in its capital city Pyongyang on July 24. The KCNA revealed that the Nature Museum covers an area of approximately 35,000 square meters, and houses [...]
YONGIN, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Two pandas at Everland were presented with special treats Sunday to celebrate their upcoming third and fourth birthdays. Ai Bao (lovely treasure) and Le Bao (pleasant treasure) are Chinese giant pandas who flew some 2,400km to Korea from China a little over four months ago on March 3. The [...]
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 [...]
YONGIN, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – June 21 marks World Giraffe Day. It was first initiated in 2014 by the Giraffe Conservation Foundation with the intention to “raise support, create awareness and shed light on the challenges giraffes face in the wild”. To mark the occasion, a zoo in Yongin, Everland Lost Valley, has arranged [...]