Hunter was charged with penalty of Rs 30,000 A hunter of porcupine, a nocturnal rodent with sharp quills at its back, has been apprehended by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Wildlife Department from Topi Tehsil of Swabi district and fined with Rs 30,000 as… Read More »Man arrested for hunting porcupine in Swabi
Wildlife officials say one of the tagged eagles clocked 36 km in a day Sindh Wildlife Department officials set free two steppe eagles rescued from poachers. Officials have put solar-powered GPS trackers on these migratory birds from the Tundra region. … Read More »Sindh Wildlife Department Releases two rescued steppe eagles with GPS trackers
A female turtle lumbers across the beach in the bustling port city of Karachi late at night, looking for a place to lay her eggs. Waiting for her, staff from Sindh Wildlife watch quietly as the green turtle buries a… Read More »Sindh Wildlife Department Releases Green Turtles
Sprawling over 17,000-hectare land, the biodiversity-rich Margalla Hills National Park has become a thriving habitat for the fading common Asian leopards. The national park is home to over 600 plant species, medicinal herbs, shrubs, around 350 bird species, 300 mammals… Read More »Leopards in Islamabad’s Margalla Hills
Some species of fish in the Punjab are nearing extinction due to water scarcity. A total of 118 species of fish are found in the rivers, lakes, headworks. and water bodies of the Punjab and as per sources 7 species,… Read More »Punjab’s Freshwater Fish at the Brink of Extinction
On Nov 7, 2021, the Islamabad High Court has imposed a ban on the import of rare breeds of animals. The court has declared that depriving animals of their natural habitat merely for the entertainment of human beings violates fundamental… Read More »Islamabad High Court Bans Import of Rare Animal Breeds
Effective measures taken against hunting and poaching have borne fruits in the rehabilitation of cheer pheasant by bringing the rare bird back to the wilderness from the state of being extinct locally. Staffers of Wildlife Manshera division have recently sighted… Read More »Cheer pheasant Successfully Reintroduced in the Wild
In the world and Pakistan, the shark and ray population has registered an alarming decline over the past 50 years. Globally, shark population has fallen by 71%, while in Pakistan, in the same period the percentage of decline in shark… Read More »Shark Population is Declining in Pakistan
A female leopard, which had got stuck in a cable net claimed to have been installed to trap crop-raiding animals in a village, died in Muzaffarabad in March 2019. The two-and-a-half-year-old leopard, zoologically known as Panthera Pardus, was recovered by… Read More »Cable Net Kills Leopard in Kashmir
The Hunza wildlife magistrate in Jan 2020 awarded eight months imprisonment to a man for illegally hunting two Himalayan ibex cubs. The Gilgit-Baltistan wildlife department had seized the carcasses of ibex cubs during the inspection of a vehicle at Ganesh… Read More »Eight Months Jail for Killing 2 Ibex Cubs
