Nine endangered animals have disappeared from the country’s biggest zoo whose management took to Facebook on Tuesday to ask for help in finding them. Taken from Avilon Zoo, located in Rodriguez, Rizal, were three mature red-footed tortoises, a mature yellow-footed tortoise, a mature common snapping turtle, three mature black palm cockatoos and a juvenile brown tufted capuchin monkey. The zoo management said the animals were part of the zoo’s WildCare Conservation Breeding Program. They were also listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, a multilateral treaty meant to protect animals and plants.

Enano, J. O. (2018, August 15). 9 Endangered animals taken from Zoo in Rizal province. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A10.