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
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
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
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
