Fate of animals at closing Sapporo zoo remains uncertain

Over 300 animals including some predators at a privately owned zoo in northern Japan's Sapporo face an uncertain future as they have yet to be moved from the facility due to shutter at the end of this month.The operator of North Safari Sapporo in Hokkaido has submitted to authorities its plan to transfer out by the end of next March around 300 of the 640 animals it had at the end of last year, but it has not said what it will do with the remainder.When the Sapporo municipal government conducted on Friday its last on-site inspection before the zoo's closure, there were still 209 mammals, 79 …READ FULL ARTICLE