BEIJING, China urged zoos to terminate the service of wild animal products and the holding of the performances of wildlife to try to improve the treatment of tigers, bears and other animals among the concerns about violence in zoos and wildlife parks.
The Department of housing and urban-rural development posted suggestions on its Web site Tuesday and inspection thereof could be made to see if zoos were consistent.
Animal welfare groups have documented widespread Chinese zoos and parks wildlife, including neglect, beatings animal abuse and the illegal sale of wine or tiger bone soup track of disappearance.
Hong Kong Animals Asia Foundation-based animal welfare group has published a report in August said bear in Chinese zoos have been regularly lashed and beaten with sticks, while elephants are parties with metal hooks, and the Tigers and lions were defanged and declawed, causing chronic pain.
Earlier this year, 11 rare Siberian tiger died in a wildlife park in icy China Northeast and Stavro said that they had insufficient funds to feed or take care of them properly.The groups said that the zoo could sell the tiger skins and bones on the black market.
Sales of tiger bone, the penis, skins and other parts are illegal in China, but persist because some consumers think products increase the power or can cure the ills of seizures, skin diseases.
The Ministry said housing zoos should provide sufficient food and shelter for their animals, put an end to all sales of wildlife in restaurants or shops and stop Zoo animal representations staging.
He said Zoo could be closed or receive a citation if they disobey the guidelines for the period of three months which began on 18 octobre.Mais inspection it does not say if the requirements would be possibly made permanent.
The Asia Foundation animal said bear black are most popular animals in China, forced to climb the bicycles, tricycles and even horses usually performers regularly whipped and beaten with sticks by their trainers.
Sun Quanhui, a researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society based in Northeast China, Hunchun city said Wednesday Housing Department's suggestions were "good news", but they do not constitute China animal abuse problems long term solution.
China has worked on a draft law protection of the animals, but it has not yet finalized and it is not known when it will be passed.
"We believe that these new guidelines are a good thing, because they could improve the well-being of animals in zoos and help to standardise conduct at zoos," Sun said. ""We hope that the future we will be able to have a right in rem in respect of animal welfare which helps to ensure the basic needs of animals in zoos and".
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