Conservationists yesterday attacked a decision by the international community to allow China to buy stockpiles of elephant ivory saying it would lead to more elephants being killed in Africa.
A meeting of the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), in Geneva, agreed that China could bid for up to 108 tonnes of ivory, collected [...]
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The potential market for tiger products in China is enormous, but a vast majority of the Chinese public would rather have wild tigers than tiger-bone wine, according to new research.
The researchers examined data collected from a representative sample of Chinese living in seven major cities in China. The results show that while the Chinese [...]
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Chinese pet owners worry about their animals, just as American pet lovers do. But the U.S. news of American dogs and cats dying after eating tainted food made few waves here—even though the suspect ingredient is believed to be melamine in wheat gluten manufactured by the China-based Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd. When [...]
We all know what Viagra does, but who would have guessed that it could help to slow down the destruction of our planet? Dr. John Grantmyre writes in the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society report Viagra is decreasing the slaughter of some endangered animals. Parts of these animals have been used for years as aphrodisiacs. [...]
You traveled all the way, queued to get a ticket and elbowed through the crowds, and finally, there are the pandas, lying still and asleep.
To better enliven the animals and satisfy its visitors, Beijing Zoo has recently launched a campaign to enrich the living environment in animal enclosures by making changes to structures, [...]
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Veterinarians at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo performed the first successful reverse vasectomy on a Przewalski’s horse (E. ferus przewalskii; E. caballus przewalskii—classification debated), pronounced zshah-VAL-skeez. Przewalksi’s horses are a horse species native to China and Mongolia that was declared extinct in the wild in 1970.
Currently, there are approximately 1500 of these animals maintained at zoological [...]
Chinese authorities has ordered a probe into reported sale of tiger bone wine in Beijing and northern China and vowed to punish anyone trading in endangered animals or their products.
The action followed a report in Britains’ The Sunday Telegraph that undercover investigators had been offered the chance to buy wine made from [...]
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Officials say there is only between three to five months’ supply of bamboo for the pandas to eat. Staff at Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Centre were trying to find fresh supplies of bamboo.
Chinese state television said that bamboo, the staple diet of pandas, is in high demand following last month’s powerful earthquake in Sichuan province. [...]
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Hong Kong plans to slaughter all live poultry in the territory’s markets following the appearance the H5N1 strain of bird flu. As Naomi Martig reports from Hong Kong, this is the most serious outbreak of the virus in the city where it was discovered in five years.
Hong Kong authorities say the cull affects all retail [...]
They are known to be shy and peaceful, but when it comes to sex, Giant Pandas turn hysterically noisy.
This complete metamorphosis of nature in the animals has been filmed by a BBC Natural History team in the bamboo forest that lines China’s Qinling mountains, when they captured a giant [...]
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