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Tag Archives: animal-markets
Lions smuggled in under official nose
Lions smuggled in under official nose
Wildlife act undergoes amendments
Shoaib Ahmed in DAWN:
LAHORE, Oct 9: Certain amendments have been made to the Punjab Wildlife’s Protection, Preservation, Conservation and Management Act 1974 through a bill submitted in the Punjab Assembly recently, wildlife officials told Dawn on Tuesday. Under the amended act, officials said, now private parties could also set up wildlife breeding farms, wildlife parks [...]
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Wildlife department destroys turtle parts
Sadia Qasim Shah in DAWN:
PESHAWAR, Aug 27: The NWFP Wildlife department on Monday destroyed parts of dead turtles recovered from a hut near the Shah Alam River on the Charsadda Road. An official of the wildlife department said that a week ago some species of turtles were declared ‘endangered species’ by the government and trade [...]
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Ministry certifies turtle parts as ‘dry fish skin’
Bhagwandas in DAWN:
KARACHI, Aug 18: A huge consignment of body parts of highly rare freshwater turtles, which was caught at the Karachi airport a few weeks ago, had been certified by the federal ministry of food, agriculture and livestock (Minfal) as dry fish skin, it has been reliably learnt.
According to sources, the export of turtle [...]
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Too cute for comfort
Too cute for comfort
Liaquatabad bird bazaar banned
From DAWN:
KARACHI, June 6: A weekly bird bazaar, which is being held for the past many years near the Sindh Government Hospital, has been banned by the Liaquatabad town administration keeping in view the hardship caused to the residents, commuters and patients.
The bazaar was held every Sunday under the Liaquatabad flyover, where birds, animals and [...]
KARACHI: Wildlife officials unaware of illegal animal imports