By Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Animal con artists are so sophisticated that they make us look like amateurs. Mimicry – in appearance, scent, sound and behavior (for instance a harmless red milk snake will change its colors to look like a… Read More »Animal Con Artists
By Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Twenty five years ago I wrote a quiz book called Wise and Wonderful published by Rupa. The idea was to get people familiar with the millions of wonderful things animals could do. So many years later… Read More »Amazing Abilities of Animals
Before humans milked cows, herded goats or raised hogs, before they invented agriculture, or written language, before they had permanent homes, and most certainly before they had cats, they had dogs. Or dogs had them, depending on how you view… Read More »The Evolution of Dog
Scant attention is paid in Pakistan to subjects like environmental protection, water pricing, minority rights and wildlife conservation and even less to furthering literacy and planned parenthood. Wildlife in Pakistan is being decimated because of two reasons. First, there is… Read More »Former Chief Secretary GB, AJK, NWFP & Sindh Wakes Up After Retirement
Veterinary doctors who should have their licences taken away combined their brains with those of forest officers and decided that the only way to get rid of the “monkey menace” was to sterilize the monkeys as well. Unfortunately, this is… Read More »What to Do with the Stray Monkeys?
Recently, the Indian Ministry of Health raided the kingpin of the illegal oxytocin trade in India. He is a lowly employee of the Municipal Corporation of Kolkata with 5 houses, and many godowns stuffed with oxytocin, and another illegal drug… Read More »Unchecked and Illegal Wildlife Trade Networks
Stay away from infested areas.Ticks live in vegetative and wooded areas. They have heat sensors that could easily detect your dog’s body heat. Once in your dog’s fur, it would then feed in order to fertilie it’s eggs. Tick Collars.This… Read More »Tick Prevention Tips
The world’s obsession with eating meat is one of the single biggest issues of our time. If you’re still eating meat, read these stories and see if your change your mind: 16 Lucky Piglets Escape Brutal Farm Life After Transport… Read More »Why You Should Stop Eating Meat?
The Balochistan Wildlife Department arrested four people on charges of poaching Suleman markhor in Shikarzai Takato area in March 2016. A team headed by a deputy conservator of the department made the arrest during a raid carried out on information… Read More »Markhors Remain Threatened
The Supreme Court on January 22, 2016 lifted a ban on the hunting of houbara bustard, a rare desert bird whose meat is prized among Arab sheikhs as an aphrodisiac. A five-member larger bench of the apex court headed by… Read More »Supreme Court Order Banning Houbara Bustard Hunting
