One of the more distressing practices that has become the norm in Pakistan is to carry out culls of packs of stray dogs that roam many of our towns and cities. Their population in urban areas tends only to grow,… Read More »Rabies-Free Karachi Pilot Project
by Subuk Hasnain Given that the sheikhs from Abu Dhabi hardly ever visit Washuk, Balochistan these days, the government decided to let the sheikhs from Qatar hunt in the area during the outgoing hunting season (November 1, 2016 to January… Read More »The Politics of Houbara Hunting in Pakistan
In July 2018, a 3-year-old male jaguar, Valerio, at New Orleans’ Audubon Zoo escaped and fatally mauled four trapped alpacas, one emu and one fox who were held in other displays. Valerio bit a hole in steel fencing and zoo… Read More »Animals Hate Zoos
A donkey in Karachi was tortured by crowd of political activists who subsequently died. It was a sad reflection on the soul of a society when its greatest targets for causing pain and misery are those who cannot fight back,… Read More »Ideas for Improving the Plight of Animals
We have been asked to post these pictures on our website by one of our supporters for killing innocent animals illegally and in a cruel fashion: The hunters are from Sehnsa, indiscrimately killing wildlife. They are Zaheer village dehlote-karitote (In… Read More »Unchecked Hunting in the Sehnsa Region
The Sindh Wildlife Department (SWD) on September 19, 2017 recovered a consignment of turtle meat which was scheduled to be smuggled to Hong Kong via Pakistan postal service. The meat, which weighed around 16 kilogrammes, was recovered after the Anti-Narcotics… Read More »Pakistani Turtle Meat for the Chinese
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
