Tag Archives: conservation

Licence to kill

By MO | Published: December 24, 2009

Editorial in Dawn: IT seemed that sanity would prevail this year but the end result was quite the opposite. It was earlier reported that no special permits had been awarded this time round for the annual slaughter of the houbara bustard, an endangered migratory bird that is ostensibly protected under Pakistani and international law. However, it [...]

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Rare falcons taken out of country

By MO | Published: December 21, 2009

Bhagwandas in Dawn: KARACHI, Dec 20: Fifteen falcons belonging to a Saudi Arabian dignitary are reported to have been brought to Pakistan recently and sent back to the kingdom after a few days. Falcons are used by hunters, mostly from Arab Gulf states, to hunt the internationally protected houbara bustard for which special hunting permits are [...]

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Are zoos really necessary?

By MO | Published: January 2, 2009

Guess post by Syed Rizvi, Founder/President of Engineers and Scientists for Animal Rights A recent editorial on the topic of zoos and conservation in Dawn of November 17 is an admirable step toward bringing the animal issue to the lime light, since without such publications the issue can never reach public eyes and be a subject [...]

Posted in Animal Welfare | Also tagged captivity, Pakistan, zoo, zoo-animals | 2 Comments

Rethinking Zoos

By MO | Published: January 1, 2009

The Wednesday, December 31, DAWN has a wonderful editorial about the poor state of zoos in Pakistan. Kudos to the paper for having the courage to say it like it is: that we do not need zoos in our country, given the abysmal state of affairs in most of them. It is time we woke [...]

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The state of our civilisation

By MO | Published: December 25, 2008

Cowasjee in DAWN: Full marks to Faiza Ilyas and to the Metropolitan section of Dawn for printing as its lead story on Dec 15 the most depressing and sad tale of the leopard transferred earlier this month from the Safari Park, where for two years she was kept in a turkey cage, to the Korangi-Landhi zoo [...]

Posted in Animal Welfare | Also tagged Animal Welfare, cruelty, leopard, Sindh-Wildlife-Department, wildlife, zoo | 1 Comment