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
In this civilized age, a most vicious and cruel spectacle of blood continues to flourish in Spain and other countries. Bullfighting is barbaric and should have been banned long ago. It is difficult to understand how crowds of people will… Read More »Bull Fighting
You should read this book if you know nothing about birds, and equally, if you marvel at them or enjoy watching them and listening to their calls. Madhaviah Krishnan, one of India’s greatest naturalists, and incontestably our finest nature writer… Read More »Book on Indian Birds by Madhaviah Krishnan
Cats have prowled the streets of Rome since ancient times, more recently finding refuge with an association of volunteers who have lovingly tended to thousands of strays over the years amid the ruins of a site where Brutus is thought… Read More »Shelter for Cats at a Site in Rome Where Brutus Stabbed Caesar
For the small number of vulture lovers the world over, good news comes from Sindh. In June 2009, a new “vulture restaurant” opened to provide safe food for the endangered birds — no reservations needed, but it’s always a fierce… Read More »Diclofenac Killing Vultures
No government survey exists on the population status of indigenous parrot species, whose exports have been banned since 2008. The measure to impose a ban without undertaking a research points to serious inadequacies in government-run wildlife institutions and, at the… Read More »Exports of Indigenous Parrots Banned Since 2008
World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan’s Dr Masood Arshad says that trade of hard shell turtles is also on the rise. “Only five per cent of their total population remains in Pakistan,” he said. In Sindh, the illegal trade of turtles is… Read More »In a Few Years, Pakistan Will Have No Turtles
