Monthly Archive for September, 2007

Key to rabies control lies in neutering dogs

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Faiza Ilyas in DAWN:

KARACHI, Sept 28: The city government kills 72,000 to 75,000 stray dogs a year but does not invest in promoting or facilitating methods to neuter animals, which is a sustainable and humane method of controlling the stray dog population and reducing the threat of rabies. Of the 16 government-run veterinary centres in the city, none currently offer services for the sterilisation of dogs. However, medical experts are of the view that the only effective long-term method of reducing the potentially fatal disease of rabies lies in controlling the dog population through vaccination and sterilisation.

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Body parts of turtles seized; five arrested

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Report in DAWN:

PESHAWAR, Sept 19: The wildlife department seized body parts of turtles, weighing up to 300kg, during a pre-dawn raid at a house in Aman Gar area of Nowshera district on Wednesday. The seized turtles were being taken to down-country for onward transportation abroad, said chief conservator Dr Mumtaz Malik while talking to APP.

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Rabies on the rise

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Rabies on the rise

A heartless society

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A heartless society

Bird completes epic flight across the Pacific

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Bird completes epic flight across the Pacific

Maggie Goes to a Sanctuary!

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Maggie Goes to a Sanctuary!

Canned hunting park planned near Sukker

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In a bid to remove dacoits from Shalo Belo near Sukker, the Sindh Minister for Culture and Tourism, Rauf Siddiqui, is planning a safari park where hunting will be one of the many facilities offered to the country’s recreation starved public. According to a report in DAWN,

It is the present government’s idea to provide maximum possible recreational spots to public.

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Exploration firm told to halt work in reserve

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Exploration firm told to halt work in reserve

Protected bird at the mercy of poachers

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Protected bird at the mercy of poachers

World Rabies Day

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Killing dogs is not the solution!

World Rabies Day walkKarachi - Successive city governments in Karachi have over the decades been killing stray dogs by strychnine poisoning and shooting with guns. They have even involved the general public in this from time to time by offering cash as reward for every dog killed. What they fail to comprehend is that no matter how many dogs are killed, the remaining will move into the area and quickly breed up to the carrying capacity of their ecological niche. At a walk to create awareness about rabies near Quaid’s mausoleum on World Rabies Day, September 8, 2007, the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) advocated the Animal Birth Control method as an effective stray dog population management strategy. Continue reading ‘World Rabies Day’