In January 2024, the caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi ordered various government departments, including the Intelligence Bureau and Anti-Corruption Establishment, to monitor ongoing construction work at Lahore Zoo and Safari Zoo. He asked them to update his office about… Read More »Monitoring of Lahore Zoo
In 2022, 200,000 cases of dog bites were reported across Sindh. Even though the population of stray dogs has increased alarmingly in the province, this is a country-wide problem. The inability of provincial governments and municipal administrations to devise a… Read More »Stray Dogs in Sindh
ByAwais Anwer Khawaja December 6, 2022 Pakistan has been battered by flash floods that have claimed the lives of nearly 1,500 people and one million animals, including cattle. Between 1999 and 2018, Pakistan ranked as the fifth most vulnerable country… Read More »How the 2022 Floods Affected the Animals?
Trophy hunting of Ibex and Urial takes place in December each year and continues until March in the “game reserves” of Sindh.These game reserves are Eri, Sumbak, Surjan and Hothiano. The permits issued for trophy hunting are valid for seven… Read More »Ibex and Urial Hunting in Pakistan
Four simple steps to protect millions of stray cats and dogs Did you know that a single female dog can deliver more than a dozen puppies a year, or more than 80 over her lifetime? Female cats are even more… Read More »Four Paws Scheme: Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return
The Department of Forests and Wildlife Preservation has devised a project for the breeding and conservation of wild birds, water birds and wild animals, their data collection and mapping through remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) in all the… Read More »Data Collection of Birds & Animals in the Punjab
Vaccines for rabies are often unavailable in the leading hospitals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s and Peshawar. As per the previous year’s data of Peshawar’s biggest hospitals – namely Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH), and Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC)… Read More »Peshawar Hospitals Lack Anti Rabies Vaccine
In Feb 2023, a leopard cat which was trapped by the locals at Barghozi village in Upper Chitral was rescued by wildlife officials and later released in its natural habitat after treatment of minor wounds in the paw. Divisional Forest… Read More »Leopards in KP
A snake house has been built in Lahore’s Wildlife Safari Park, where visitors can not only see different species of snakes but also interact with them. Rare species of pythons and cobras are among the species at the snake house.… Read More »Snake House in Lahore’s Wildlife Safari Park
Three mugger crocodiles, donated by the Sindh Wildlife Department, arrived in Peshawar Zoo in Feb 2023 where a special enclosure has been constructed for them. Peshawar Zoo Deputy Director Haseena Anbarin said that the zoo is being developed and built… Read More »Sindh Gives Three Crocodiles to Peshawar Zoo
