Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats Feral felines are driving the country’s native species to extinction. Now a massive culling is underway to preserve what’s left of the wild. By Jessica Camille Aguirre April 25, 2019/ New York Times In the deep winter weeks of July 2018, Shane Morse and Kevin Figliomeni nearly […]
This Planter Doesn’t Stop The Elephants As a child, Tenzing survived a militant attack on his family. He went on to pioneer elephant-friendly tree plantations. On a cool October evening in 1996, staccato bursts from automatic rifles rang through a small village in the Indian State of Assam’s Udalguri district, along the foothills of the […]
A popular weekend activity was to go into the hills surrounding Islamabad and feed the dozens of monkeys there. But with the federal capital under lockdown due to coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and public places such as Shakarprain and Damane Koh declared off-limits, no one has been going to offer food to these simians. As a […]
In line with its international commitments, the federal government has approved the establishment of a court for hearing offences against endangered wildlife. A senior civil judge from Islamabad will be appointed to the court to hear complaints about poaching and the illegal trade of endangered species and wildlife, said officials of the Climate Change Ministry […]
by Faiza Ilyas December 29, 2019 To estimate the bird’s population at three sites and across Punjab, data was collected as per standard protocols and analysed using standard principles of statistics. The population of houbara bustard has declined in Punjab over the three-year period from 2017 to 2019, suggesting that hunting of the bird in […]
Seven Qataris held for trying to hunt houbara without licence The Qatari nationals were travelling towards Nushki when they were intercepted and taken into custody by Levies personnel at Galangoor checkpoint on the Quetta-Nushki highway. In Dec 2019, seven Qatari nationals, including four members of the royal family, were arrested for attempting to enter Nushki […]
Baby turtles have to cross a treacherous stretch of sand from their nest to the water, trying to escape the ever-present predators on their way. At least 140 baby green turtles were released into the sea at Hawkes Bay Beach on Dec 6, 2019 in the second release of the season. Officials in the Sindh […]
Three Billion Canaries in the Coal Mine What does it mean for us that birds are dying? And what can we do about it? By Margaret Renkl A Magnolia Warbler found recently on a suburban lawn in the northeast. During the nearly quarter-century that my family has lived in this house, the changes in our neighborhood […]
Tigers at a reserve in the Indian state of Maharashtra last year. The country now has about 3,000 wild tigers, according to a new estimate. By Kai Schultz India’s population of endangered Bengal tigers is on the rise. According to a government estimate, there are nearly 3,000 Bengal tigers in the wild in India, a 33 […]
Faiza Ilyas | Behram Baloch April 4, 2019 The 34-foot-long whale washed ashore dead on the beach in Gwadar. A 34-foot long whale that washed ashore dead on the beach in Gwadar in April 2019 was quietly buried by municipality workers before its body could be examined by experts. “Perhaps the efficiency shown in burying the foul-smelling […]