If I can remember correctly, this story is even sadder than it sounds in the first place.
When the Safari-Park was opened in northern Kunming, animals from the central zoo were to be send over because the living conditions for them would have been much better.
Guess what... central Zoo officials protested against it, as they found out that this would mean that they would loose customers, eg. business. They argued, that the central zoo's main objective was/is, to present animals to the interested public. They knew also knew that space was very confined downtown but shipping the animals out to north Kunming would have removed them too far from "public".
I'm sorry, I can't find the article anymore, but if you want to read more about the Kunming Zoo, check out this article: www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-06/29/content_343575.htm
Some of what I mention is in there, and some can be deduced off it.
Interview: Ming Yi
Posted byHi Peter,
Haobao is in GoKunmings listings.
gokunming.com/en/listings/item/hao_22234/haobao_organic_farm
They have the exact address and phone number there. They also had an option to pick you up at your home (for a reasonable fee), bring you to their farm and take you back home, but I don't know if this info still up to date.
Getting Away: Rock Climbing in Dali
Posted byVery interesting, I am looking forward for more (give me a teaser, is it white water kajaking?).
Getting away: Changchong Mountain
Posted byBlobbles,
I can second tigertiger, you can use Google Earth to preplan your route. I even find the resolution good enough to find my way without a GPS. Learn your route by heart on the screen or print out a map with several predefined routes.
If you're planning on descending on one of this farmers tracks let me give you a word of warning. These tracks tend to become very steep and narrow (especially near the top) with quickly changing surfaces (sharp rocks followed by a slippery clay-like surface for example). I hike them quite often and I am not sure you can completely negotiate them with a bike, unless your last name is Atherton though. I guess you'll have to carry your bike at some points.
If you want to try it, never ride alone and tell people where you will be riding, and then, please don't divert from your route(s).
Zoo stunned by dog attack, foul play suspected
Posted byI am more astonished that a pack of five dogs would actually attack deers... On the photos the dogs do not look that big, the typical Kunming city mix. Yes, the deers lived in a zoo, when they saw the pack (no matter how it got in), they definitely panicked, as they never had an encounter with another predator before and of course the dogs chased them. But it's beyond me why a well fed, or at least not starving dog (see pictures) would bite to kill.
Except they were well trained. I mean five dogs and six dead deer?! Very well trained.
Sad sad sad.
I hope that this will have no repercussions on domestic local dogs (as I own one), and I hope that the police will realize that this was a well planned and well executed attack (don't get me wrong, no positive vibrations here).
Getting away: Changchong Mountain
Posted byHey, short question:
Who of you managed to climb the first steep (concrete) ramp directly behind the cigarette factory??
I'm a beginner, just started riding mtb. But man this is so steep. I made it all the way to the park entrance without putting a foot on the ground except the first ramp.
Just now it seems that the roads in the "park" are being paved so I couldn't ride in. The construction starts directly after the first small parking lot. As I live very close by, I'll try to go up the mountain regularly and keep you updated.