Television’s actress Ayeza Khan took to Instagram to bring light to the plight of animals during this time when many of us are afraid of venturing out of our houses and paying attention to them. “I know all of us have our freezers and kitchens over loaded with food right now because no matter what, […]
Sometimes the interests of humans and animals are the same, but humans have to save the animals first. In Goa, about 40 percent of free-roaming dogs are too skittish to be easily handled. A Mission Rabies team, trailed by reporter James Gorman, in blue hat, using nets to catch and vaccinate them against the virus. […]
According to the wildlife department, 10 rare falcons were rescued from smugglers who were attempting to send them to the Gulf States. The Sindh Wildlife Department officials set free seven of the 10 falcons, which were rescued as a smuggling bid was foiled earlier, in Kirthar National Park on Oct 26, 2019. The birds were […]
Sanctuary Makers The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation near Kaziranga in Assam is the guardian angel for animals and birds in peril, especially during floods by Anupam Bordoloi (Clockwise from left) CWRC members transport a rhino calf which had strayed into a village on the outskirts of the Kaziranga National Park on July 26. […]
A Tiger Without Enemies Bengal’s fishing cat and its habitat in the wetlands are endangered. Activists sing of their symbiotic beauty. by Dola Mitra Hooghly district, West Bengal. Evening is descending over a large marshy lake that stretches from the edge of a cluster of villages for a few square kilometres to the opposite bank, […]
Once-captive elephants find sanctuary in this one of its kind pachyderm hospital For most part of her life, fifty-year-old Asha carried tourists on her back at Amer Fort in Jaipur. She slogged for several hours a day, walking up and down steep terrain and enduring extreme weather in the desert state. Today, she ambles in […]
Anyone would shed real tears when a leg or an arm is caught between a crocodile’s jaws; a bite force more brutal than an industrial sledgehammer’s pounding. The jungle aphorism turned on its head when a 130-year-old, three-metre-long crocodile in a Chhattisgarh village died of natural causes. The whole of Bawamohatra turned up for the […]
ISTANBUL: The Vetbus, a mobile clinic service for animals. Concerned for the health of a black cat roaming around the university campus where she works, Mevlude dropped off the feline at the veterinary clinic for street animals run by the Istanbul municipality. Visitors to the Turkish city, who admire its centuries-old mosques and Ottoman palaces, […]
A pet owner, who lost her two-month-old kitten in late 2015 due to alleged negligence of two veterinarians, is still waiting for justice with the court yet to decide the case. Sundas Hoorain had maintained that owing to the ‘negligent’ treatment by a veterinary clinic in Sector F-7/4, her kitten had died. She had demanded […]
Kannu Piraditta lovingly scratches the back of Raja – the lion – through the metal bars of his cage at the Karachi Zoo. The king of the jungle playfully rubs his back against the bars, before bowing his head to let Piraditta scratch behind the ears. “I look after the most ferocious animals at zoo,” […]