06/22/12
A brown bear family sighted in Hundrap, Ghizer
Link: http://pamirtimes.net/2012/06/22/a-brown-bear-family-sighted-hundrap-gilgit-baltistan/
A brown bear family sighted in Hundrap, Ghizer
Our Correspondent
Gilgit, June 21: The Snow Leopard Foundation, Pakistan, has said that a family of Brown Bear has been sighted in Hundrap area of Phandar, located in Ghizer District of Gilgit - Baltistan. According to a press statement members of an occupancy survey team sighted the Brown Bear family from an approximate distance of almost 100m.
The site occupancy survey in Pahndar was a two week activity to document occurrence of large carnivores, the press statement states, in which an area comprising of 51 grid cells (5 x 5 km each) were searched by six experienced researchers. The main localities surveyed included Langer, Barsit, Teru, Hundrab, Serbal and Chashi. The presence of brown bear, wolf, fox and ibex was confirmed in different parts of the area through their signs. Sighting of brown bear in Hundrab strengthened the evidences.
Gupis: The surveyors think that the population of the endangered Brown Bear in Hundrap might be very small. PR
10/21/09
Education for Conservation: Establishing leopard-friendly communities.
Education for Conservation: Establishing leopard-friendly communities.
20 October 2009 | News - News story
A leopard conservation project in Northern Pakistan has advanced human-feline relations in the area through the provision of educational training schemes.
The Leopard conservation project, which is supported by the IUCN’s Sir Peter Scott Fund for Conservation Action and donor organization Fondation Ensemble, has launched a series of ‘Safety Measures’ training initiatives, aimed at local communities as a means of combating the current negative perception of leopards, and diminishing the risks of leopard attacks on both humans and their livestock.
10/17/09
Ibex deaths expose wildlife dept’s shortcomings
Link: http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/local/karachi-ibex-deaths-expose-wildlife-depts-shortcomings-709
KARACHI: Ibex deaths expose wildlife dept’s shortcomings
By Bhagwandas
Saturday, 17 Oct, 2009 | 04:35 AM PST
KARACHI, Oct 16: The outbreak of a deadly disease in the Khirthar National Park which is killing the highly rare Sindh ibex (mountain goats) has exposed the shortcomings of the Sindh wildlife department including the lack of professional medical facilities.
According to sources, the department which is responsible for the welfare of wildlife does not even have a veterinarian to examine and treat the animals or an operation theatre and a laboratory where surgeries, autopsies and tests may be carried out, owing to which disease detection/identification can take a long time — as it did in the current case in which over three weeks have lapsed and the fatal disease has yet to be identified.
10/17/09
Another ibex dies
Link: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\17\story_17-10-2009_pg12_11
Another ibex dies
Death toll of Sindh ibexes in Khirthar Park hits 48
By Amar Guriro
KARACHI: Another Sindh ibex has died in the Khirthar National Park following the recent wave of a viral disease in some of the herds, bringing the death toll of dead ibexes to 48.
Experts have termed it as a disaster that has gripped the protected park for the first time in its history.
10/11/09
Livestock doctors’ team to visit Khirthar National Park
Link: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\11\story_11-10-2009_pg12_9
Livestock doctors’ team to visit Khirthar National Park today
Actual cause of death of ibexes not ascertained so far
By Amar Guriro
KARACHI: A team of the wildlife department, comprising officials and doctors, would visit the Khirthar National Park, where an emergency has been declared followed by the death of several ibexes after getting affected with a viral disease. The team also includes livestock doctors from the nearest town, Thana Bola Khan, which will go to the park and check the general conditions of the park and see whether the disease has stopped or is still spreading among the animals.
However, a team comprising experts of pathology laboratory Islamabad, which is supposed to be the only laboratory to detect viral diseases among animals, would also visit the park on Wednesday. The team would collect the sample of the dead animals and would try to get blood samples of the infected animals so that the actual reasons behind the death of animals in the park could be ascertained through DNA test.
10/05/09
Fin whale caught in gill net killed by fishermen in Pakistan
Link: http://www.wildlifeextra.com//go/news/pakistan-fin.html#cr
Fin whale caught in gill net killed by fishermen in Pakistan
05/10/2009 09:14:32
September 2009. A 45 feet long sub adult Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) washed up on the beach of East bay in Gwader, Pakistan. The whale appeared to have some injuries on the fluke and on its head and the cause of mortality was concluded to be due to accidental capture in gill nets.
Fin whale in Pakistan killed in gill nets. Photo credit A Rahim/PWP
