by Saher Baloch As he was going about his daily chore of cutting grass for his livestock, 25-year-old Ghulam Nabi discovered “hundreds of dead fish” floating on the left side of the Manchhar lake near a wide patch of wild… Read More »Manchar Lake in Sindh is Not Dying But Dead
A four-year- old girl died after she was bitten by a stray dog in Hyderabad’s Aliabad neighborhood on January 25, 2015 night. The deceased victim, Saira Chandio, was attacked while she was playing with other children near an embankment of… Read More »Stray Dogs Kill a Girl But is Killing Them the Solution
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Wildlife Department is faced with the illegal trade of birds across the whole province. Like in all other provinces, many animals have been pushed to extinction by the greed of poachers but it is the province’s birds that… Read More »The Fate of Birds in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is Sad
The Sindh Provincial Government denies the existence of scorpion and gecko smuggling but it has nevertheless imposed a ban on their illegal movement. While the poaching of black scorpions and geckos is rampant, their final destinations have yet to be… Read More »Black Scorpions Smuggling is Rampant
Hunting down pangolins is terribly easy. All the poachers have to do is send trained sniffer dogs to track them. Once they sense a predator approaching, the pangolin curls up into a ball to present its harder outside shell to… Read More »The Pangolins on the Verge of Extinction
On Oct 9, 2014 late evening, 38 poisonous snakes, including 18 black cobras and 20 vipers, were recovered from a passenger wagon near Jamshoro. This is the first time that the Sindh Wildlife Department has recovered such a large consignment… Read More »38 Snakes Rescued in Sindh While Being Smuggled
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir Wildlife Act 1975 (No XXIII). The Balochistan (Wildlife Protection, Preservation, Conservation and Management) Act 2014 (No XV). The Gilgit-Baltistan Wildlife Preservation Act 1975. The Islamabad Wildlife Wildlife (Protection, Preservation, Conservation and Management) Ordinance 1979 (No… Read More »Pakistan’s Wildlife Laws
In May 2010, the Sindh Wildlife Minister, Dr Essrani, told the Sindh Assembly that it was not true that the Sindh Wildlife Department carried out census of animals in the Khirthar National Park (KNP) on an annual basis. “Annual surveys… Read More »Khirthar National Park
In May 2010, the Sindh Minister for Wildlife Dr Daya Ram Essrani told the Sindh Assembly that there are 52 private zoos existing in the Sindh province for which licences have been issued by the Wildlife Department, the regulatory authority for… Read More »52 Private Zoos in Sindh
Stray dogs lope around, their tails between their legs, trying to be invisible. They shy from physical contact with people but respond with surprise and simpering gratitude if it is offered. Most of their physical interactions with people come in… Read More »Life of Stray Dogs in Pakistan
