Mayor says authorities have taken advantage of closure to carry out uplift work at zoo In July 2020, city mayor Wasim Akhtar had announced that the Karachi Zoo will soon be granted the status of a family park; he had… Read More »Plans to Give Karachi Zoo Family Park Status
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… Read More »The Karachi Zoo Keepers
The Karachi Zoo has reported a single birth in fallow deer, four in white fallow deer, three in black bucks, two in nilgai, one in rhesus monkeys, one in spotted deer, three in blue peacocks, 10 in crocodiles and three… Read More »Birth Spree at the Karachi Zoo
The Karachi Zoo has seen the birth of 25 Russell’s vipers in a single litter, raising the number of this species to 31 at the facility. The last births in Russell’s vipers happened in 2008. The zoo lost the young… Read More »25 Russell Vipers Born in the Karachi Zoo
Water birds, turtles and crocodiles at the Karachi Zoo have not been properly fed for the past few months apparently because the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has not paid dues to contractors despite earning millions of rupees every year from… Read More »Animals at the Karachi Zoo Suffering From Lack of Food
Tusks of elephants at the Karachi Safari Park are being deliberately cut off. Governmental inquiries however following reports that tusks had been cut off from live animals housed in a Karachi Metropolitan Corporation facility and following notice taken by the… Read More »Karachi Safari Park Elephants Mysteriously Losing Their Tusks
A puma is still living in the small enclosure where it was born about ten months ago in the Karachi Zoo. The young male cat, Jewry, shares the cage having a concrete floor with its mother in the current hot… Read More »New Born Puma at the Karachi Zoo Needs More Space
Karachi’s zoo is about to lose another one of its Bengal Tigers –– this will be the fourth one. The previous one died in November 2012. All efforts, as the zoo administration puts it, have failed to help recover the ailing… Read More »Karachi Zoo Loses Another Bengal Tiger
A number of poor animals are suffering and living in miserable conditions at the Landhi -Korangi Zoo which experts believe needs to be closed down forthwith as a facility to house animals because the government has failed to bring about… Read More »Animals Continue to Suffer at the Landhi Korangi Zoo
Given the accounts of recent events at the Karachi Zoo, one cannot help but become suspicious at the staff’s treatment toward the animals held at the zoo. On November 19, 2012, the Zoo lost its third Bengal tiger of four, marking… Read More »Animals Continue to Die in the Karachi Zoo
