Four simple steps to protect millions of stray cats and dogs Did you know that a single female dog can deliver more than a dozen puppies a year, or more than 80 over her lifetime? Female cats are even more… Read More »Four Paws Scheme: Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return
The Department of Forests and Wildlife Preservation has devised a project for the breeding and conservation of wild birds, water birds and wild animals, their data collection and mapping through remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) in all the… Read More »Data Collection of Birds & Animals in the Punjab
Vaccines for rabies are often unavailable in the leading hospitals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s and Peshawar. As per the previous year’s data of Peshawar’s biggest hospitals – namely Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH), and Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC)… Read More »Peshawar Hospitals Lack Anti Rabies Vaccine
In Feb 2023, a leopard cat which was trapped by the locals at Barghozi village in Upper Chitral was rescued by wildlife officials and later released in its natural habitat after treatment of minor wounds in the paw. Divisional Forest… Read More »Leopards in KP
A snake house has been built in Lahore’s Wildlife Safari Park, where visitors can not only see different species of snakes but also interact with them. Rare species of pythons and cobras are among the species at the snake house.… Read More »Snake House in Lahore’s Wildlife Safari Park
Three mugger crocodiles, donated by the Sindh Wildlife Department, arrived in Peshawar Zoo in Feb 2023 where a special enclosure has been constructed for them. Peshawar Zoo Deputy Director Haseena Anbarin said that the zoo is being developed and built… Read More »Sindh Gives Three Crocodiles to Peshawar Zoo
After years of breeding and conservation efforts, the rare white-backed vultures at the Vulture Conservation Center in Changa Manga Forest are aching to be in the air but experts feel letting them out in the open poses significant risks. The… Read More »Should be Vultures be Released from Changa Manga Sanctuary
Punjab’s wildlife faces an increasing threat of extinction due to the incompetence of authorities. Wildlife surveys have not been conducted for many years, and the results of past surveys are being kept secret. This has resulted in a significant decline… Read More »Punjab’s Wildlife Under Threat
Children offering grass to herbivores in Lahore zoo. A new mini-zoo has been established in Shimla Hill Park in Abbottabad, as part of a positive initiative by the Department of Wildlife and Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) in March 2023. Abbottabad… Read More »Yet Another Zoo: A Zoo in Abbottabad
In Nov 2022, the Additional Sessions Judge I in Mithi, Tharparkar in the Sindh province convicted two men with a one-year jail term and imposed a fine of Rs 2.2 million for attempted smuggling of four fawns. During a raid… Read More »Mithi Additional Judge Convicts Two for Smuggling Fawns
