There are few things Americans can agree on these days. Wildlife crossings, it seems, are one of them. By Catrin Einhorn/ NYT May 31, 2021 The engineers were used to building overpasses for vehicles, not wildlife. But every spring and fall, collisions with mule deer and pronghorn spiked in the Pinedale region of Wyoming, where Route […]
The first-ever wildlife protection police stations in the country have been set up in Sindh under the Sindh Wildlife Protection, Preservation, Conservation and Management Act 2020. Citizens will be able to approach any one of the six police stations established in the first phase in Thatta, Sujawal, Badin, Tando Muhammad Khan, Jamshoro, and Hyderabad to lodge complaints […]
Habitat degradation and smuggling of diesel from Iran are posing existential threats to the green turtles in the coastal areas of Daran, Balochistan, according to the World Wide Fund (WWF). Owing to a conjunction of factors, including mortality during fishing operations, pollution, habitat degradation and climate change, a change in the scutes of two turtles […]
In a bid to protect Punjab’s dwindling wildlife, the administration is mulling over the idea of creating a dedicated force of field officers in the province. The provincial government might also declare poaching as a non-bailable offense in Punjab. “We plan to create a force similar to what we already see in Gilgit-Baltistan,” said Syed […]
The Punjab government, in a bid to curb illegal hunting, has proposed the confiscation of weapons as a punishment for wildlife poachers. While, trophy hunting quotas for the Punjab Aryal and the Himalayan Ibex species is yet to be decided by the federal government. “We want to bring the quality of wildlife in Punjab at […]
All hunting activities will be outlawed in five out of six newly formed habitats Following instructions of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Punjab Wildlife Department has initiated the formulation of rules for six wildlife habitat categories in the Punjab. In this regard, a nine member committee headed by the Punjab Wildlife […]
It was sold in the market at a cost of Rs150,000 per kg The fish is a rare croaker (Kir) and weighs approximately 48 kg. It was sold in the Jiwani fish market on Sunday at a cost of Rs 150,000 per kg. A precious fish worth Rs7.2 million was caught in the waters of […]
Turtle breeding declined by 30% in last 10 years because of water pollution, dwindling natural habitats, say experts Pakistan is fast losing its traditional nesting sites for sea turtles, posing further threats to the already endangered species. Female turtles lay their eggs on beaches between October and February, and the eggs hatch in about 60 […]
Wildlife conservators and marine experts were taken aback by the disposal of the body of the whale that had washed up on the Seaview beach in Sept 2020 by Cantonment Board Clifton staff without preserving its skeleton. The parts of the badly decomposed body of the whale were removed from the beach and dumped in […]
Report shows signs of increase in some vulture species in Tharparkar While vulture populations in Pakistan are critically endangered, some species have shown an increase in numbers in Tharparkar, long considered a stronghold of these scavengers in Sindh. The federal government may declare ‘Greater Thar’ – encompassing parts of Tharparkar, Umerkot, Sanghar, Khairpur and Ghotki […]