Tag Archives: Karachi-Zoo

Leopard’s plight fails to move city govt

By MO | Published: January 10, 2009
Faiza Ilyas in DAWN: KARACHI, Jan 4: The city government is yet to take any steps to alleviate the suffering of the lone female leopard kept in unnatural conditions in the CDGK’s Korangi-Landhi zoo and being ‘targeted’ by visitors for fun. During a visit to the zoo last week, the cemented floor of the cage was [...]
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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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Zoo needs healthy gene pool

By MO | Published: November 12, 2007
Zoo needs healthy gene pool
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Karachi Zoo elephant dies

By MO | Published: September 18, 2006
Anarkali, Karachi Zoo’s 65 year old female elephant died in July this year. Upon her death she became food for the other zoo animals. Her body is to be stuffed and put on display in the zoo’s natural history museum while the zoo’s director, Mansoor Qazi, considers ways to get another elephant soon. In recent years [...]
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