by Jenny Holt The natural biodiversity that the earth can offer us is under significant threat from human development, and the range of amazing species that are indigenous to Pakistan are no exception. With each inch of destruction of creatures’… Read More »How to Reduce the Risk of Window-Related Death for Birds
Before humans milked cows, herded goats or raised hogs, before they invented agriculture, or written language, before they had permanent homes, and most certainly before they had cats, they had dogs. Or dogs had them, depending on how you view… Read More »The Evolution of Dog
For a place often associated with confinement, suffering and death, the city animal shelter in Manhattan was a pretty happy spot last Friday afternoon, at least in the backyard. A half-dozen pit bull mixes chased one another across an asphalt… Read More »Dog Shelters in New York
by Maneka Gandhi The police need to take animal abuse seriously. Every survey done by crime squads across the world shows that animal abuse is directly linked to domestic abuse and to violent crime. In January 2016, the United States Federal… Read More »Animal Abuse Should be Taken Seriously
by Goodwell Nzou My mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me. So sorry about Cecil. Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe? Cecil who? I wondered. When I turned… Read More »In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions
Think of all the dogs out there: labradors and poodles and labradoodles; huskies and westies and dogues de Bordeaux; pit bulls and spaniels and lovable mutts that go to doggy day care. Add them up, all the pet dogs on the… Read More »Helping the Stray Dogs
by Maneka Gandhi I have a vegetable garden. The monkeys take my brinjals, the parakeets take the chillies, the moles take the cauliflower, leaf curl gets my tomatoes, and squirrels come for some seeds. I get the mint, dhaniya and… Read More »Protecting Animals & the Vegetation
The CCR (Council of Constitutional Rights) has filed an opening brief in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in U.S. v. Johnson, an appeal from the criminal prosecution of two animal rights activists for liberating thousands of mink and foxes… Read More »Freeing Animals Is Liberation, Not Terrorism
Scant attention is paid in Pakistan to subjects like environmental protection, water pricing, minority rights and wildlife conservation and even less to furthering literacy and planned parenthood. Wildlife in Pakistan is being decimated because of two reasons. First, there is… Read More »Former Chief Secretary GB, AJK, NWFP & Sindh Wakes Up After Retirement
What Can You Do Help the Poor Bustard? Designate well-protected core breeding areas, where the bustards’ ecological needs are factored in with low-intensity livelihood concerns Enlist support of local communities and all the relevant departments Conserve grasslands. Curtail detrimental infrastructure… Read More »The Poor Bustard in India
