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
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?
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
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
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
