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The Morgah Biodiversity Park, the first of its kind in Pakistan, is a brainchild of United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia and Pacific costing $1,55,000. Initially, the basic concept behind the establishment of the park, covering 28 acres of land, was conservation of flora and fauna in natural habitat of the Potohar region. [...]

The Lahore Zoo has erected barriers around the chimpanzee cage because Romeo, the male chimpanzee, gets upset if people come too close to his two and a half month-old baby, Honey. Romeo began to draw crowds after he began throwing water at people to ward them off. He would fill his mouth with water from [...]

A pair of puma has joined the inhabitants of the Karachi Zoo, increasing the size of the big cat family to 10. The zoo authorities told The News that the one-year-old pair was added to the zoo on Monday and they were contented with the new atmosphere. The new tenders had already been invited for [...]

The festival has been organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan in collaboration with the Forum of Environment Journalist Pakistan and TVE Asia Pacific. It was attended by a large number of people, especially students, who keenly watched the thought-provoking environmental films, both in English and Urdu. Based on theme “Vision of Nature” [...]

It was a wonderful trip and unprecedented in the world of art in Pakistan. They very idea, to spend a week among the ravishing scenes of nature and mountains and lakes, was highly appreciated by the group which consisted of painters, sculptors and photographers, and it was a reluctant party that returned to Islamabad when [...]

The course of true love never did run smooth, and between sub-continental siblings, India and Pakistan, the bard’s words never rang truer. Buffalo, you ask, with that slightly curled lip. Not if you are in Haryana or Punjab (on either side of the border), where the true worth of such animals is well appreciated. Doubtless, [...]

The first biodiversity park of its kind in the world was officially launched on Monday by representatives of united Nations Economic and Social commission for Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP), the government and the private sector in Morgah, Rawalpindi. The project was completed to the tune of 155,000 dollars. The Morgah Biodiversity Park Project is the [...]

A large number of children, accompanied by their parents, visited the day-long Nature Carnival, that was organized by a non-governmental organization, the World wide Fund for Nature (WWF) at the PAF Museum on Sunday. Over 50 schools participated in the activity, where the students had prepared various three-dimensional models based on five themes – Birds [...]

The Sindh Wildlife Department is launching a massive rescue and relocation operation on Friday for the Indus dolphins that strayed into different canals during monsoon. According to sources, at least 12 such dolphins have been located after getting stranded in different canals originating from Sukkur Barrage. According to sources, the dolphins usually stray into various [...]

The Hubara Bustard population, a migratory bird that comes to Pakistan from the freezing Central Asian States during November-December, have arrived here in flocks and their returning process would commence from February to end of March. As many as 20,000 to 25,000 Hubara populations have migrated to Pakistan every year, he said. The distance covered [...]