As Lahore’s green cover slowly gives way to concrete structures and urban development, the city’s birds must find a place to go. And though there have been no surveys on the migration pattern or population of birds in Lahore, Dr Uzma Khan of the WWF-Pakistan, says it doesn’t take much to notice that Lahore’s ecosystem […]
By Sylvester Conception The Capital Development Authority (CDA) governing Islamabad claims that chaining elephants for brief periods of time is a common practice in zoos all over the world and that the Islamabad Zoo administration is trying its best to put an end to it on its premises. It also claims that the 31-year-old Asian […]
by Mohammad Hanif When I take my dog for a walk on the beach near my house in Karachi, this is how people react: Mothers tell their kids, look, a dog; kids ask me the dog’s name and if they can touch him; most grown men either recoil or ask me about the price and […]
By Justin E. H. Smith Homo sapiens has long sought to set itself apart from animals — that is, apart from every other living species. One of the most enduring attempts to define humanity in a way that distances us from the rest of animal life was Aristotle’s description of the human being as a “political […]
Opelika and Lily, yellow Labrador retrievers, are part of the Canine Performance Sciences Program at Auburn University, which breeds and trains dogs to use their powerful sense of smell to keep people safe. After a year of preparation, Opelika will probably be placed with a government agency or a private security firm to sniff out bombs, […]
Snowflake never saw it coming. She was a 3-month-old Maltese puppy, fluffy, white and adorable. She had a home, her life was just getting started, and then she broke her leg. It should have been a quick fix but her owner, Ivanchenko, didn’t see it that way. Ivanchenko grabbed Snowflake, put her in a plastic […]
Maddie, like all animals in the farm industry, was born with a death sentence hanging over her head. However, fate intervened and this beautiful goat’s life took an unexpected twist. Now living a dream life at Indraloka Sanctuary, what came before was far from the pretty picture that the so called ‘humane’ farming industry would have us believe. We […]
Roadside signs may warn us of wildlife crossing these stretches of road, but if drivers rarely encounter animals, they can become habituated to the warnings. Flashing lights augmenting these signs can slow drivers, but they are most effective if used only during the riskiest periods. Drivers are less likely to ignore animal crossing warnings that are […]
On May 9, 2015, the army vet, Michael Hammons, who served in Desert Storm, heard a dog in distress inside a hot parked car, with no water. Instinctively, he jumped into action. Grabbing the foot rest of his wife’s wheelchair, he smashed open the window of the car, parked in an Athens, Georgia, shopping center, to free the […]
On a bright summer’s day at the Bronx Zoo, four adult female gorillas nursed their babies until the little gorillas were so full of mother’s milk, they fell asleep in the hot afternoon sun. In the distance, on a hill, a 5-foot-tall, 505-pound male silverback named Ernie gazed out over it all, chewing on a celery […]