Seoul government to make legal standards for raising endangered species

The government will set strict standards for facilities that raise endangered wild animals so it can be implemented in the second half of 2014, the environment ministry said Tuesday. The ministry said the standards will be included in the enforcement ordinance to a revised law on the protection and management of wildlife, both set to go into effect together in July of next year. The move comes after a three-year-old Siberian male tiger attacked and seriously injured a zookeeper at the Seoul Zoo on the southern outskirts of the capital last week.