KFBG Blog: Animal Stories
Second Eurasian Hobby rehabilitated by the KFBG Wild Animal Rescue Centre
It is only the second time since the establishment of the KFBG Wild Animal Rescue Centre in 1994 that a Eurasian Hobby has arrived from being rescued and then been rehabilitated and released. The rap...
World Otter Day 2018
30 May 2018 is the World Otter Day. Hong Kong is home to the inquisitive, playful and intelligent Eurasian Otter. Highly elusive, otters have been occasionally captured on researchers' camera traps, ...
Leave wild birds alone in nature
A family of Collared Scops Owls nesting in a park in Kowloon have recently attracted citywide attention. We call on everyone to comply with the law, and give these and any other young birds space to ...
Twenty-eight critically endangered tortoises join conservation programme in Australia
Twenty-eight critically endangered Madagascan Radiated Tortoises have reached their permanent home joining a conservation programme at Darling Downs Zoo in Australia. Juvenile Madagascan Radiated Tor...
Black-faced Spoonbills Returned To The Wild After Rescue
Three globally endangered Black-faced Spoonbills were reunited with the wild flock on Monday (5 March 2018) after two weeks of treatment at Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden (KFBG). In mid-February,...
Rescued Wood Turtles Repatriated to North America
Forty-three North American Wood Turtles (Glyptemys insculpta), rehabilitated at the KFBG Wild Animal Rescue Centre, arrived safely in their native country on 20th December 2017. In 2014 and 2015, Hon...
Our Oldest Pygmy Slow Loris Recently Passed Away
A Pygmy Slow Loris, which was rescued in 1999, has recently died at the grand old age of 20. Since its establishment in 1994, the KFBG Wild Animal Rescue Centre has handled 50 Pygmy Slow Loris cases,...
Two critically endangered Siamese crocodiles rehomed to Singapore Zoo
Two critically endangered Siamese crocodiles departed for their new permanent home in Singapore Zoo on August 15 2017 after being cared for by the KFBG Wild Animal Rescue Centre for several years. Th...
Emy the Asian Brown Tortoise – A Tale of Survival
Authors: Gary WJ Ades (Head of Fauna Conservation Department of KFBG) and Andrew B Brown (Executive Director of KFBG) Emy's full scientific name is Manouria emys emys she is an Asian Brown Tortoise,...
Two Chinese Pangolins Rescued and Released in June 2017
Two Chinese pangolins were received and cared for by the KFBG Wild Animal Rescue Centre in the space of three weeks. On 19 May, a juvenile female Chinese pangolin was found after she had been mauled ...