The WorldWide Funds for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) has expressed its grave concerns over illegal import of White tigers and conversion of the green areas in Karachi into industrial areas. According to an official here on Thursday, a meeting of WWF-P Board was held on April 18 at the Qarshi Industries, Hattar.
A Thai zoo hoping to tame its tigers is letting a sow suckle a pair of cubs, while a tigeress takes care of some of her piglets.
The bizarre arrangement at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi is intended to accustom the prey and predators to one another, and make the tigers more docile, officials say.
in safe hands: The rescued elephant calf at the Vandalur Zoo in Chennai on Friday.
CHENNAI: A four-month-old male elephant calf, abandoned by an elephant herd, was rescued by Forest Department officials in Erode last week. The calf was brought to the Vandalur Zoo for rehabilitation on Friday.
Two turtles, rescued from a city market and gifted to the zoo by a teenager, have gone missing from their enclosure and the authorities have no clue how.
Asish Chowdhury, who appeared for the ISC from La Martiniere for Boys this year, bought the turtles for Rs 70 from a market off the EM Bypass and deposited them at the zoo in end-2007.
Mumbai: Veermata Jeejabai Udyan, also identified as Byculla Zoo, is among city's oldest heritage precincts. Difference in opinions has now emerged on how it began life.
China will send five tigers as "friendship envoys" to North Korea, a provincial government website said on Thursday, even as reclusive Pyongyang declared it would restart a nuclear plant and expelled UN inspectors.
Hyderabad, April 14: Experts in the Nehru Zoological Park have started a breeding programme for Mouse deer, an endangered species which is also known as Spotted Indian Chevrotain.
Ahmedabad : There is an unusual void at Kamala Nehru zoo in Kankaria as teary eyed keepers bid adieu to their favourite zoo member forever, Raja the Royal Bengal tiger on Monday morning.
High-level inquiries by both the federal and provincial governments have been instituted into the purchase of two very rare white tigers by the Lahore Zoo from a private animal supplier after it was reported in the media that the animals had been brought into the country without proper mandatory import documents, Dawn has learnt.
