By Sadia Qasim Shah It was a festival and children were happily insisting and pulling their parents to let them ride it. The old white horse having a colorful harness and other gaudy embellishments seemed lifeless. `Why the long face?’.… Read More »Working Animals Continue to Suffer
Two accidents in south Punjab claimed the lives of nine camels and caused severe injuries to a dozen more on June 11, 2014. In the first incident, four camels were killed and 12 injured when a passenger train slammed into… Read More »Two Accidents in a Day: Nine Camels Killed
WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) and BRC (Bioresource Research Centre) estimate that around 40-45 bears remain in captivity for use in the brutal blood sport of bear baiting. In March 2014, one more of these long-suffering animals… Read More »A New Life For Zorro
Should a Chimp Be Able to Sue Its Owner? By Charles Siebert International NYT/ April 23, 2014 Just before 4 p.m. on Oct. 10, Steven Wise pulled his rental car in front of a multiacre compound on State Highway 30 near… Read More »Right of Animals to Sue
I have prepared this Policy for the FC College. Hopefully, it will be adopted by the College. Other institutions should feel free to adopt it by using it, after making the necessary modifications. Anees Jillani Forman… Read More »Draft Policy for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research, & Training
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
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
The Killers Underfoot By Matthew Lewin NYT/ April 14/ 2014 In just over a month, life-giving rains will soak India during the annual monsoons. As welcome as these rains are, they also bring with them injury and death from snakebite.… Read More »Snakebites & Vaccination
Despite a ban on the netting and illegal smuggling of endangered species, provincial authorities struggle to check the rise of gecko leopard and pangolin poaching in Khyber Pakhtunkwa and FATA. Small, slimy, and valuable: the leopard gecko and the pangolin… Read More »The Rise of Gecko Leopard And Pangolin Poaching in Khyber Pakhtunkwa
A zoological survey department (ZSD) team tasked with surveying Manchhar Lake found hundreds of migratory birds, some even endangered, slaughtered and their meat being sold at the local markets of nearby towns. It is important to mention here that Dadu… Read More »Endangered Migratory Birds Meat Selling In Markets Near Manchhar
