On Dec 2, 2016, CDA Wildlife officials confiscated a seven-month-old bear cub that was apparently on sale at the National Science Fair. Among the 150 stalls set up at the fair, the pavilion of Dr Rana’s Clinic was the centre… Read More »A Seven-Month-Old Bear Cub for Sale in Islamabad
Canine can sniff out the socks worn by children carrying the mosquito-borne parasites, a study finds. By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Nov. 5, 2018/ NYT Dogs have such exquisitely sensitive noses that they can detect bombs, drugs, citrus and other contraband in luggage… Read More »Dogs Can Detect Malaria. How Useful Is That?
A Bangladeshi security guard was handed a jail sentence on May 10, 2018 in Dhaka for burying alive two dogs and their 14 puppies, in what activists hailed as the country’s first ever animal cruelty conviction. Mohammad Siddique, who buried… Read More »Burying Alive Two Dogs & Their 14 Puppies
By Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Of all the species in the world, the human can do the least magic with his/her body. We cannot fly; we swim very feebly and that too above water. We cannot change color or texture, we… Read More »Fascinating Features of the Animal World
by Zofeen T. Ebrahim Marine turtles, a resilient group of creatures that have been around for over 200 million years and survived mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaur, are today facing their gravest challenge yet. Nearly all species are… Read More »Marine Turtles under Threat in the Arabian Sea
Sana Raja is a yoga instructor at the women training centre of the Social Welfare Department. Her love for animals, however, led her to do a two-year veterinary course at the Pir Mehr Ali Shah-Arid Agriculture University. She now treats… Read More »Yoga Instructor Loves Animals
If a single picture could highlight the numerous ailments that a society suffers from, then the Feb 10 newspapers must be thanked. The picture of a 13-year-old boy smiling at a freshly killed Himalayan ibex could not have been more… Read More »Unethical to Kill our Dwindling Wildlife
Cruelty to animals especially donkeys, horses and mules, goes unchecked in South Punjab and for that matter in the whole of Pakistan and the process of submission of challans on torturing animals has almost been stopped. There were over 50… Read More »Cruelty to Animals, Especially Donkeys, Horses & Mules, Goes Unchecked
Early Monday morning, animal rescue team Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation (ACF) was handed a donkey brutally beaten, wincing in pain and shaken by trauma. The NGO took the donkey in and shared images on social media of the torture inflicted upon… Read More »A Donkey Beaten to Death by PTI Supporters in Karachi
by Faiza Ilyas A critically endangered giant sawfish — a species whose fishing is banned under a Sindh government notification — was caught by fishermen at the mouth of the Indus river and later sold off in Ibrahim Hyderi, World… Read More »An Endangered Giant Sawfish Killed in Karachi
