Bangkok's Dusit Zoo swaps animals with Nashville Zoo

June 11, 2001

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Animal swap with foreign zoos saves baht and adds

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June 9, 2001

Animal swap with foreign zoos saves baht and adds diversity

The government yesterday agreed to barter some of Thailand's rare

animals with wildlife reserves in Malaysia, Singapore and the United States.

Photo: Krasae Chanawong, PM's Office minister, and Rick Schwart, director of

Nashville Zoo, gesture before pictures of wildlife species included in an

exchange agreement signed between Dusit Zoo and the US zoo yesterday. _

APICHIT JINAKUL

The agreements were signed at Government House by Pisit na Phattalung,

director of the Zoological Park Organisation, and directors of Malaysia's

Taiping Zoo, Singapore's Zoological Gardens of Wildlife Reserves, and

Nashville Zoo in the US.

Krasae Chanawong, PM's Office minister who oversees the Zoological Park

Organisation, said the agreements would enable Thailand to obtain pedigree

animals without spending as much as 20 million baht to obtain new animals.

Dr Krasae said the agreements would also help create a good relationship

between Thailand and other countries.

Mr Pisit said Thailand would trade a clouded leopard and a banded palm civet

with a white tiger from the US; a clouded leopard, a golden cat, a spotted

linsang and a sarus crane with a seladang and a Borneo orang-utang from

Malaysia; and a bay bamboo rat, a large bamboo rat, a Burmese ferret badger,

a hog badger, a yellow-throated martin, a clouded leopard, a white cheek

gibbon and a large Indian civet with a patas monkey, a serval, an

orang-utang, a fat-tailed lemur, an angole cow, a cape buffalo and a spotted

hyena from Singapore.

Mr Pisit said the white tiger would be placed at Bangkok's Dusit Zoo and the

cape buffalo would be sent toNakhon Ratchasima Zoo, where the environment

was similar to Africa.

Last Modified: Sat, Jun 9, 2001

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