The brutal act of animal testing is now increasingly being replaced with quicker, cheaper and more reliable testing methods that do not involve animals. These modern methods are more relevant to humans and have been found to predict human reactions… Read More »Animal Testing Should be Banned in Pakistan
The Punjab Wildlife Department has failed to curtail the sale of birds being held in cages despite a ban on the practice. In most of the cases, locals end up purchasing the birds and release them as an act of… Read More »Caging & Freeing Birds for Bliss
by Faiza Ilyas Animal well-being and welfare, a subject which requires high priority at least at state-run facilities for captive species, has been completely ignored in an ambitious project that the government plans to launch at Safari Park in Karachi.… Read More »Rs 7.7 Billion Karachi’s Safari Park ignores Animal Rights
On the pavement near Taxila Chowk, 28-year-old snake charmer Fanous Bhatti flips the lid of a basket, and a snake slowly rises out of it. His spectators are mostly stunned young boys. They clap, and leave coins and small notes… Read More »Thank God that Snake Charmer Say Tradition Losing Ground
Terming the situation prevailing at Peshawar Zoo “alarming”, an inquiry committee has held the top management of the facility responsible for the death of animals. Following the reports of death of animals and birds in the zoo, the KP government… Read More »Peshawar Zoo Management Held Responsible for Animals’ Death
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
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
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
