Guest guest Posted March 31, 2010 Report Share Posted March 31, 2010 Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:00 PM Animal grave at Chinese Zoo http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7081010.ece From Times Online March 30, 2010 Animal mass grave discovered at Chinese zoo Newspapers in China allege that some zoos are breeding Siberian tigers to produce tiger-bone liquor Jane Macartney in Beijing The bodies of more than 30 animals, including rare white tigers and lions, that died of malnutrition have been found in a mass grave near a Chinese zoo. The discovery comes just weeks after more than a dozen tigers were found to have died of starvation at another Chinese zoo amid suggestions that the administrators wanted to harvest their parts to make expensive – and banned – tiger-bone tonic. The bones and remains of a quantity of animals could be seen poking through the snow In a three-metre deep pit near the Harbin Northern Forest Zoo, in Heilongjiang province in northeast China, state media reported. They included two white tigers, five white lions, two leopards and five other big cats that had died in early 2008, zoo staff told a Chinese reporter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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