Virus pushes Indonesia zoo animals to brink of starvation


This picture taken on April 29, 2020 shows a tiger resting inside its enclosure at the zoo in Bandung, West Java. Indonesian officials said on Saturday (May 2) that some 60 cash-strapped animal parks -- home to roughly 70,000 creatures -- across the South-East Asian archipelago have been closed since mid-March and most say they have only enough food until the middle of May. - AFP

BANDUNG (Indonesia): Thousands of animals, including endangered Sumatran tigers and Bornean orangutans, are facing starvation at Indonesia's zoos as the global Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic pushes shuttered facilities toward collapse, officials said on Saturday (May 2).

Some 60 cash-strapped animal parks -- home to roughly 70,000 creatures -- across the South-East Asian archipelago have been closed since mid-March and most say they have only enough food until the middle of May.

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