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
The adventures of a juvenile crocodile were cut short when villagers found it in an agricultural field in Sanghar, Sindh, in December 2012 some distance away from its habitat. They caught and released it into a lake in Makhi forest… Read More »Juvenile Crocodile Saved in Sanghar, Sindh
The northern mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Karakoram, Hindukush and Pamir, and the ranges of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral in Pakistan host one of the most fascinating animals of the world: the snow leopard — which is listed on the IUCN’s… Read More »Pakistan Left with Only 300 to 420 Snow Leopards
All hell broke loose when a little leopard and his mother were crossing a river near the Khunjerab National Park in Gojal Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan in late December 2012. The Khunjerab Park is the third largest park of the country… Read More »Snow Leopard Cub Rescued in Gilgit-Baltistan But Remains to be Rehabilitated
On March 26, 2014, a five-metre-long whale shark weighing between three and four tonnes was caught in Balochistan and brought to Karachi Fish Harbour where it was auctioned before being chopped and transported to markets to be used in poultry… Read More »Pakistanis Continue to Kill Whale Sharks
On October 14, 2010, the Punjab Wildlife Department recovered 53 Siberian falcons in Islamabad and arrested a man before he could send the birds to Qatar after catching them from Cholistan. The Wildlife officials said they had received information that… Read More »Trafficking of Falcons
With over 81 per cent decline in shark landing registered since 1999 and lack of a proper mechanism to regulate shark fishing, marine experts feared that the country might get deprived of this marine species in coming years. Some conservationists… Read More »Unregulated Shark Fishing Results in a 81% Decline
As the winter starts in Pakistan, Houbara Bustard, a popular quarry off falconers, starts to arrive in Pakistan from the Central Asian regions. A large number comes from Mongolia, Siberia and Central Asian Republics (CARs) in November and December and… Read More »Time to Stop Hunting Houbara Bustard in Pakistan
