Tag Archive for 'conservation'

BATTAGRAM: Black bear cubs recovered, poachers held

BATTAGRAM: Black bear cubs recovered, poachers held

KARACHI: Zoo loses a pony, another is ill

KARACHI: Zoo loses a pony, another is ill

Extinction Trade

Extinction Trade: Endangered animals are the new blood diamonds as militias and warlords use poaching to fund death.

NGOs for strict implementation of hunting ban

Report in DAWN:

MITHI, Jan 29: Marooara, a network of more than 60 non-governmental organisations, has demanded a complete ban on hunting of near-extinct species of animals and stern action against poachers and hunters. The chairman of Marooara coordination council Obhayo Junejo, project coordinator of Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment (Scope) Bharumal Armani, and programme coordinator of Baanh Beli Sultan said at a press conference at the press club that the Wildlife Department should stop issuing permit for houbara hunting to royal dignitaries in the name of hospitality.

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Crippling our coastal lifeline

Najma Sadeque in DAWN:

If fish and other marine life could speak their minds, they would condemn humans as the dirtiest life forms on earth and a threat to all life - notwithstanding claims to ‘civilisation’. They wouldn’t be far wrong. Unknown to most, 80 per cent of the sewage produced by the world’s six billion humans, plus as much industrial and agro-chemical waste, pour into the oceans in unbroken, continuous streams.

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Zoo needs healthy gene pool

Zoo needs healthy gene pool

Poachers refuse to part with game

Bhagwandas in DAWN:

KARACHI, Oct 23: The four influential men who were on Sunday booked by the provincial wildlife department for poaching refused to part with the carcasses of the poached birds, it emerged on Tuesday. They were caught poaching in the Kirthar National Park, as partly reported by Dawn on Monday.

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Survey for breeding urial in Salt Range

Survey for breeding urial in Salt Range

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 and zoological gardens.

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Body parts of turtles seized; five arrested

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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