The death of a rare breed giraffe at the Lahore Zoo in Feb 2022 has once again highlighted the problems of short-staffing, distressed animals, inadequate facilities – leading to questions like whether it is time to abandon zoos altogether. The… Read More »Animals in Miserable Condition in Pakistani Zoos
A rare white lion died in Karachi Zoo on Nov 24, 2021 after its lungs stopped working due to pneumonia, a spokesperson for the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) claimed. He said that the big cat was ill for the last… Read More »Lion Dies at Karachi Zoo
The Karachi Zoo has reported a single birth in fallow deer, four in white fallow deer, three in black bucks, two in nilgai, one in rhesus monkeys, one in spotted deer, three in blue peacocks, 10 in crocodiles and three… Read More »Birth Spree at the Karachi Zoo
by Faiza Ilyas Animal well-being and welfare, a subject which requires high priority at least at state-run facilities for captive species, has been completely ignored in an ambitious project that the government plans to launch at Safari Park in Karachi.… Read More »Rs 7.7 Billion Karachi’s Safari Park ignores Animal Rights
Water birds, turtles and crocodiles at the Karachi Zoo have not been properly fed for the past few months apparently because the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has not paid dues to contractors despite earning millions of rupees every year from… Read More »Animals at the Karachi Zoo Suffering From Lack of Food
Tusks of elephants at the Karachi Safari Park are being deliberately cut off. Governmental inquiries however following reports that tusks had been cut off from live animals housed in a Karachi Metropolitan Corporation facility and following notice taken by the… Read More »Karachi Safari Park Elephants Mysteriously Losing Their Tusks
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
Four lion cubs died at the Karachi Zoo in August 2011. Mortalities especially of newborns are common at the zoo and are often hushed up. Four newborns of a fallow deer and a male baboon had also died in captivity… Read More »Animals in Pathetic Condition at the Karachi Zoo
Given the accounts of recent events at the Karachi Zoo, one cannot help but become suspicious at the staff’s treatment toward the animals held at the zoo. On November 19, 2012, the Zoo lost its third Bengal tiger of four, marking… Read More »Animals Continue to Die in the Karachi Zoo
Overcoming the road blockades and braving the protests, hundreds of people came to the Karachi zoo on Feb 20, 2013 to see 31 large snakes, which have been brought there as safekeeping for a few weeks. On Feb 17, a… Read More »Imported Snakes from America Suffering at the Karachi Zoo
