Join our Whatsapp channel CHITRAL: A Spanish national hunted a Kashmir Markhor with a horn length

on Thursday for illegally hunting the rare Suleiman Markhor in the mountainous Takato Range.... This

Join our Whatsapp channel Source: Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination In an oddball attempt at wildlife conservation, the KP government chooses irony as its choice tool.... Trophy hunting started out as a way to discourage overhunting by offering 80pc of the funds raised via auction to community-based organisations.... This might also appease organisation advocating for animal rights that question the legitimacy of these numbers, convinced that, in reality, the population

Join our Whatsapp channel VASILI Achapoukaski with his trophy. —Photo by the writer GILGIT: Local and foreign hunters have hunted 13 ibexes and one blue sheep during the current trophy hunting season in the mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan, according to the GB Wildlife and Parks Department. The latest trophy was a 25-inch blue sheep hunted by a Belarus citizen, Vasili Achapoukaski, in Sokhterabad, Gojal, in the Khunjerab National Park Community Control Area.He had paid$ 25, 100 to the GB government

CHITRAL: Members of the village conservation committee( VCC) of Denin Lasht here have asked the caretaker chief minister to take action against the chief conservator and divisional forest officer( DFO) of the wildlife department for ‘manipulating’ the election of the organisation. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Qari Ebadur Rahman, Shuaib Ahmed, Mustajab Khan, Baghdad Khan, Noor Rahim Shah and others said the incumbent president of VCC, Fazlur Rahman had been holding the office of

Join our Whatsapp channel RAWALPINDI: Sta-llions went top of the Champions T20 Cup points table with an impressive 12-run win over Lions here at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Monday.To win their second match in a row, Stallions were helped to 162-5 in 20 overs by a solid unbeaten 36-ball 51 by Hussain Talat who knocked his maiden T20 hundred in the team’s victory over Panthers on Saturday. They then restricted Lions to 150-7 in 20 overs. Shoaib Malik( 2-23), Usman Tariq( 2-23) and Zaman Khan

Join our Whatsapp channel A treacherous combination of habitat degradation, illegal hunting and predation has pushed the Great Indian bustard, one of the world’s heaviest flying birds, to the brink of extinction in Pakistan and India, wildlife experts and conservation groups warn. With an alarmingly small global population numbering just between 200 and 250 individuals, the bird has been classified as “ critically endangered ” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature( IUCN).In Pakis