Group to gather signatures against turning Bobo into specimen
The government’s decision to turn Bobo, the city’s beloved Asian black bear who died last Tuesday, into a specimen for display has angered many locals, with the Abandoned Animals Protect Association of Macau (AAPAM) starting a petition for people to sign this Saturday at Bobo’s former enclosure in Flora Garden.On the day that Bobo died aged 32 or 33, the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) said there were plans to preserve the ursine’s body through taxidermy to be turned into a