Monthly Archive for May, 2007
Eye-Opening Scenes Depicting Mutilation and Abuse Deemed Too Gruesome
Islamabad - A provocative new public service announcement (PSA) which aims to educate people about the plight of Pakistan’s dancing bears has been banned by Pakistan Television Corp. In a bid to expose viewers to the horrific mutilations and abuse that dancing bears endure, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Asia-Pacific (PETA) tried to buy a spot during the network’s prime time. PTV ad executives said the video - which shows a screaming man being burned and tethered through the nose like a dancing bear - was too graphic.
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Bhagwandas in DAWN:
KARACHI, May 27: Two Indus blind dolphins that had strayed away in canals originating from the Sukkur Barrage were rescued and relocated to their habitat in the Indus River during the season 2006-7.
According to sources, the dolphins were caught from the Mirwah and Rohri canals, which originate from the Sukkur Barrage, in a rescue operation carried out jointly by the Sindh Wildlife Department and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The creatures were relocated to the dolphin reserve located between the Guddu and Sukkur Barrages during August 2006 and March 2007.
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Bhagwandas in DAWN:
KARACHI, May 3: The two green turtles on which satellite transmitters were installed in September 2006 for the mapping of their movement in the Arabian Sea have gone missing, it emerged on Thursday.
The data sent in by the transmitters of the turtles, which were named Chandni III and Chandni IV, was last recorded in November 2006, sources told Dawn.
This was the second attempt by Pakistan at the mapping of the movement of the green turtles. In August 2001, two turtles, named Chandni I and Chandni II, were mounted with satellite transmitters. They went missing when shortly after the Sept 11 attacks on US soil the Arabian Sea played host to American warships launching attacks on Afghanistan.
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THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT, 1890
1ACT No. XI of 1890 (21st March 1890)
(As modified up to the 15th December, 1937)
AN ACT for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Title, extent and commencement, and super-session of other enactments
WHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the prevention of cruelty to animals. It is hereby enacted as follows:-
1. (1) This act may be called the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890.
(2) This section extends to the whole of British India; and the 2(Provincial Government) may, by notification in the official Gazette, extend, on and from a date to be specified in the notification, the whole or any part of the rest of this Act to any such local area as it thinks fit. Continue reading ‘The Pakistan Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890′
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