A Japanese zoo is fighting back after authorities in Hokkaido prefecture issued a closure order for the facility exhibiting ...

Extracting methane from manure and converting it into hydrogen powers the local farms, industrial vehicles, and even a local zoo. With hydrogen's ability to store energy efficiently, Hokkaido's dairy ...

Born in 1999 in Hokkaido’s Asahiyama Zoo, Oto had lived in the Toyohashi Zoo and Botanical Park in Aichi prefecture since 2001. “Beloved by lion enthusiasts across the country, Oto brought joy ...

It was a tense and anxious time." A research team led by Professor Sakoda Yoshihiro of Hokkaido University examined the zoo's dead black swan. Postmortem of a black swan. Photo provided by ...

HAKODATE, Hokkaido -- The annual "Monkey Mountain Hot Spring" event at the Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden here has been drawing increasing foreign visitor numbers in recent years. The December ...

According to the Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Hokkaido, the average life expectancy of a Steller’s sea eagle in the wild is around 30 years. However, a Steller’s sea eagle kept at the zoo died at ...