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Zoo home to a series of exotic abandoned pets

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-9-6

THE Shanghai Zoo is overcrowded with exotic pets such as red-eared turtles and estuarine crocodiles that have been abandoned by their owners. Officials said every time such an animal or reptile is found in the...

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Heat policy draws fire at animal park

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-8-16

ANIMAL experts and park visitors objected to a new policy which gives some "animal athletes" at Shanghai Wildlife Park the day off when the temperature hits 35 degrees Celsius or above. The experts said the policy...

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Snakes seized at market

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-8-11

THIRTY-THREE snakes have been confiscated from an aquatic products market in Putuo District after a man almost died when he was bitten by a poisonous narrow-banded krait on Saturday. The Putuo District Greenery...

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Holes cut into cat's eyes

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-8-7

BAI Ding, a 60-year-old retired teacher is calling on residents to adopt a blind cat that was abandoned after someone cut holes into its eyes. The old lady burst into tears when she first saw the cat under a tree....

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Zoo offers vivid wildlife to the blind

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-8-3

SHANGHAI Zoo will soon open a nature-experience area for the blind, who will be able to feel the nature, hear the sounds of animals, smell and touch plants and flowers, a zoo official said. A sound-effect room...

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Panda back in spotlight

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-7-31

JIA Si, the world's second oldest giant panda to be bred in captivity, is to appear in public again at Shanghai Wildlife Park from August to October. But visitors will have to make an appointment to see her, park...

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Center aims to take wildlife off the menu

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-7-29

LOCAL wildlife protection authorities have strengthened inspection on illegal wildlife transport on highways, to prevent rare animals ending up on restaurant tables. The Shanghai Wildlife Conservation and Management...

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Road checks increase to save animals

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-7-28

LOCAL wildlife protection authorities will strengthen inspection for illegal wildlife transport on highways to prevent snakes, frogs and pangolins ending up on dining tables. The Shanghai Wildlife Conservation...

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Thoughtless zoo visitors put animals in danger

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-7-22

VISITORS to the Shanghai Zoo are putting animals' lives at risk with their carelessly discarded rubbish. Chinese alligators at the zoo look like they're living on a trash dump with empty water bottles and soft...

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Yangtze study on fish planned

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-7-21

AN in-depth investigation into local fish resources in the Yangtze River will begin before 2015, officials at the Regional Bureau of the East China Sea Fisheries Management said yesterday. The authority hasn't...

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Bird sanctuary to be preserved

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-7-20

A WETLAND near the East China Sea will be preserved on the blueprint for the under-construction satellite town of Lingang City in the Pudong New Area, city officials said yesterday. The wetland features many...

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Bulldozers beat birds but egrets will survive

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-7-16

RESIDENTS who watched as the peaceful life of egrets at a small wetland area in Songjiang District was ended by bulldozers have had their minds set at rest after learning the wetland is not the home for the birds. ...

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Expo pandas taken to new wildlife park home

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-6-29

THE 10 giant pandas on loan to the city for the World Expo said goodbye to the Shanghai Zoo yesterday as they were taken to their new home at the Shanghai Wildlife Park. Wildlife park officials said yesterday...

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Snakes alive! Zoo in rare first

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-6-22

THE Shanghai Zoo has successfully hatched rare constrictor snakes for the first time. They are expected to go on show to visitors in about a month, the zoo said yesterday. Constrictor babies started to come out...

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Fowled-up campus ruffled

Metro | Pets and animals
2010-6-10

AT Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Minhang campus, the hottest student issue might be the birds that have invaded their eco-friendly campus. To furious victims of the birds' abundant droppings, it's high time...