by Uzma Khan Whilst issues of animal welfare, particularly that of zoo-housed elephants, prevail in Pakistan, a leading daily English newspaper on April 15, 2014 carried an advertisement to purchase a female elephant for the Bahawalpur Zoo. The advertisement even… Read More »Purchase of an Elephant by Bahawalpur Zoo Violation of World Zoo Conservation Strategy
A committee of experts views the master plan of Islamabad Zoo as flawed and is working to rectify it but they are making progress at a snail’s pace, due to a lack of ownership by the capital’s civic agency which… Read More »Imperfect planning: Islamabad Zoo: a Project Perpetually in the Works
The chronic issue of inbreeding the Punjab Wildlife is confronted with for several years took the life of a four-and-a-half-month white tiger cub (Zona) at the Lahore zoo. In the past too, the inbreeding resulted in the deaths of several… Read More »Tigers’ Inbreeding Taking Its Toll in Pakistani Zoos
A lioness has killed her four newborn cubs, two of them by devouring, at the zoo in March 2014. This is sad and goes to show the failure of the zoo authorities to properly handle the Lioness and to assess… Read More »Bahawalpur Zoo Lioness Kills Her 4 Cubs
We all should visit the zoos, and highlight the plight of animals there in order to get the living conditions of these animals improved. As a long term measure, awareness about animal rights can be raised in the general public;… Read More »Regularly Visit & Monitor the Zoos
Islamabad’s Development Authority has placed the much awaited remodelling of the Zoo on the back burner after spending over Rs30 million on it. Paucity of funds is again said to be the main reason behind the delay in the project,… Read More »No Funds for the Islamabad Zoo
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
Zookeepers around the world, facing limited capacity and pressure to maintain diverse and vibrant collections of endangered species, are often choosing between two controversial methods: birth control and euthanasia. In the United States, the choice is contraception. Chimps take human… Read More »When Babies Don’t Fit Plan, Question for Zoos Is, Now What?
“We as a society have to decide if it is going to be ethically and morally appropriate to simply display animals for entertainment purposes,” said the director of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, part of the National Zoo in Washington.… Read More »American Zoo Problems
Zoos have become akin to death row for these wild animals when the whole idea of setting them up was exactly the opposite. As of 2013, Pakistan has about eight recognised zoological parks but many believe the actual number to… Read More »The Whole Idea of Zoo Itself as a Scientific Institution is Challengeable
