PAWS lists medical treatment the animal urgently needs

The 80-pound cat ambushed Travis Kauffman

The killings were caught on a gaming camera

A hunting trophy license is issued after a proper auction by Peshawar’s wildlife department

An African elephant is killed roughly every 15 minutes

Those fireworks that produce light but no noise have been excluded from the ban

Country hopes that artificial archipelago of five islands will bring nature back to the region

They were released into the Sukkur Barrage

There has been an 8% decline in migratory birds in Pakistan in 2018

Fawn of a rare musk deer was released in Karakoram national park in Skardu, SAMAA TV reported on Sunday. The three-month-old fawn was recently injured when attacked by a brown bear and wild dogs in Qamari area of Gilgit Baltistan, according to wildlife officials. It was rescued by locals and later handed over to the…

Illegal traders use Facebook pages and groups to buy and sell rare animals

At the top on their two-storey house, Zahoor Ahmad and Adil Ahmad scour the sky while their pigeons are in flight. As the sun begins to sink, Zahoor shouts to his younger brother: “The baby has come. Fly a few pigeons so that the infant recognises his home.” Adil takes a long bamboo stick to…

JAKARTA: A 66-year-old woman was mauled to death by a huge crocodile on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, police said Saturday. The Indonesian woman’s family and neighbours launched a search after she failed to return home from a riverside garden near the remote village of Teluk Kuali in Jambi province earlier this week. Locals became…

JAIPUR: A sub-adult male leopard was found dead in Jhalana jungle on Tuesday. Wildlife officials suspect it fell from a cliff during a territorial fight, reported Times of India. According to a forest official, the body that was found near the Jawahar Nagar Bypass area was two days old. “Primia facia, it appears the leopard…

Illegal hunting of endangered species continues to take place in Tharparkar as there is no check by the wildlife authorities.

WASHINGTON: Grizzly bears native to Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding area are being removed from the endangered species list, the US government said Thursday, calling efforts to replenish the population a major success. Conservation groups were however quick to criticize the move, saying dropping federal protections would again put grizzly bears at risk. The…

KARACHI: The Astola Island, an island famous for its scenic beauty, has been designated as Pakistan’s first ever Marine Protected Area (MPA) under Convention on Biological Diversity on Thursday. Covering an area of about 400 square kilometres, Astola Island is located about 39 kilometres east of Pasni, Balochistan and is considered the largest island along…

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Climate Change, Syed Rizwan Mehboob, said on Monday that the present government is making concerted measures to fight unhampered smuggling of wildlife in the country. “Taking serious notice of the recent turtle smuggling bid foiled by the Sindh Wildlife Department officials, the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has appreciated the…

MIAMI – In this small animal hospital perched on Miami’s sun-splashed harbor, some of the most exotic creatures fly in and out of Carla Zepeda’s life. From peacocks to pelicans, opossums to owls, Zepeda is part of a six-member staff that cares for both the furry and the feathered at the Pelican Harbor Seabird Station,…

SINGAPORE: Singapore on Monday crushed and burnt almost eight tonnes of ivory confiscated over two years to try to deter smugglers as activists called for tighter enforcement. Over 2,700 elephant tusks weighing 7.9 tonnes were fed into an industrial rock crusher before incineration. It was the first time seized ivory had been destroyed in Singapore,…

During the ongoing trophy hunting season in Gilgit-Baltistan, a Filipino hunter has hunted the highest rated Astore markhor, for Rs.6800,000. The rare species of large Himalayan goat was hunted in mountainous area of Haramosh. Watch this report…