Lahore Safari Zoo now has so many big cats that their lions and tigers have to take it in turns to access the paddocks, said Tanvir Ahmed Janjua, the zoo’s deputy director. “Not only will we free up more space… Read More »Lahore Safari Zoo was auctioning off a dozen of its 29 lions to private buyers to free up space
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Wildlife Department foiled a bid to smuggle Leopard Gecko Lizards to China in June 2022. “We have arrested two smugglers after recovering as many as 15 Gecko Leopard Lizards from a car on Karakoram Highway,” Divisional Wildlife… Read More »Smuggling Leopard Gecko Lizards to China
In June 2022, the wildlife Hazara circle foiled a bid to smuggle rare Tarantulas spider and arrested three poachers at Shah Maqsood Interchange. The poachers were arrested by wildlife officials posing themselves as potential buyers, according to Wildlife Hazara Division… Read More »Smugglers Transporting Rare Tarantulas Spider Arrested
A gang of 20 poachers with 20 dogs was intercepted by Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB) in their attempt to hunt for endangered species in the Margalla Hills National Park According to IWMB officials, more than 20 people entered the… Read More »Hunting in the Margalla Hills with Dogs
by Qalander Memon Recently, Foxie got out of the house and disappeared. Learning of Foxie’s disappearance I was alarmed. He was a white, blue-eyed Persian cat and, therefore, a commodity for most. I volunteered to check at Tollinton Market, Lahore,… Read More »Tollinton Market Lahore: Hell for Animals
A leopard was killed by locals in Haripur’s remote village of Kiyan in June 2022. The wild animal somehow strayed into the low-lying settled area, possibly in search of food before it was gunned down by villagers. The locals claimed… Read More »Haripur Village Kills a Leopard
International smugglers working with locals in illegal smuggling On July 29, 20The Abbottabad Wildlife Department on Saturday arrested a gang involved in the illegal smuggling of snake skins in the Shah Maqsood are of Haripur. Sources confirmed that the group… Read More »Snake Skin Smugglers Arrested in Haripur
by Satram Sangi The people of Thar have dedicated a graveyard for the rare chinkara deer. They have buried seven deer that had been hunted and slaughtered recently by five hunters in Rangilo, a village a few kilometres off Chelhar,… Read More »A Deer Graveyard in Tharparkar
In late May 2022 , the Wildlife Department Rawalpindi Division arrested 12 men in different parts of the city for selling sanda oil, illegal black partridges and other unlicensed wild animals and birds. They recovered 13 sanda or spiny-tailed lizards,… Read More »Sanda Oil Sellers Caught in Rawalpindi
A lion cub peeks out of a window of a flat in the PECHS area of Karachi. Punjab Wildlife launched a crackdown on those who keep lions and tigers in private homes. A citizen who kept a lion cub in… Read More »Lahore Resident Fined for Keeping Lion as a Pet
