It wasn’t about kittens doing the darnedest things. Under the headline “What Your Cat Is Thinking,” it examined the new book “Cat Sense,” by a British biologist, John Bradshaw, who flags his seriousness of purpose with his subtitle, “How the… Read More »Becoming a Better Friend to Your Pet
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
A large number of people enjoyed the camel wrestling fair in Layyah at New Stadium. Choubara, the desert tehsil of Layyah, is known for camels. An annual camel fair has been held at Inayat Shah Darbar since centuries where wrestling,… Read More »Camel Wrestling in Layyah
Wildlife conservation efforts, particularly for the common leopard in the hills of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), have had little effect as more than 60 common leopards have been illegally hunted in the past four years. According to game wardens… Read More »Leopard Hunting in Pakistani Kashmir
A dog shelter backed by a Russian billionaire is engaged in a frantic last-ditch effort to save hundreds of strays facing a death sentence before the Winter Olympics begin here. Already, hundreds of animals have been killed, with the local… Read More »Saving the Stray Dogs of Sochi
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
by Faiza Ilyas Out of the 19 pythons handed over to the animal laboratory of the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) almost a year ago by the zoo, only eight have survived at the facility. What had directly or… Read More »11 Pythons Die in DUHS Lab Within a Year
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
