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
Two hundred black pond turtles that were smuggled out from Sindh to China were brought to the Indus Dolphin Centre in Sukkur on August 22, 2014. The Chinese authorities handed over the turtles to a Pakistani delegation comprising Sindh wildlife… Read More »200 Smuggled Turtles Brought Home from China
Akhunzada Hasham Hazrat, a government official from Dir, has been booked for hunting 28 rare pheasants and partridges in Kohistan. His crime was discovered after he uploaded pictures on to Facebook. His favourite website appears to be a Turkish one,… Read More »Rare Pheasant & Partridge Hunter Caught in KP
Despite a ban on the netting and illegal smuggling of endangered species, provincial authorities struggle to check the rise of gecko leopard and pangolin poaching in Khyber Pakhtunkwa and FATA. Small, slimy, and valuable: the leopard gecko and the pangolin… Read More »The Rise of Gecko Leopard And Pangolin Poaching in Khyber Pakhtunkwa
A zoological survey department (ZSD) team tasked with surveying Manchhar Lake found hundreds of migratory birds, some even endangered, slaughtered and their meat being sold at the local markets of nearby towns. It is important to mention here that Dadu… Read More »Endangered Migratory Birds Meat Selling In Markets Near Manchhar
Wildlife conservation efforts, particularly for the common leopard in the hills of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), have had little effect as more than 60 common leopards have been illegally hunted in the past four years. According to game wardens… Read More »Leopard Hunting in Pakistani Kashmir
No government survey exists on the population status of indigenous parrot species, whose exports have been banned since 2008. The measure to impose a ban without undertaking a research points to serious inadequacies in government-run wildlife institutions and, at the… Read More »Exports of Indigenous Parrots Banned Since 2008
World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan’s Dr Masood Arshad says that trade of hard shell turtles is also on the rise. “Only five per cent of their total population remains in Pakistan,” he said. In Sindh, the illegal trade of turtles is… Read More »In a Few Years, Pakistan Will Have No Turtles
