female snow leopard killed in GB .search operation underway to recover the two cubs of the dead moth

[N.Siddiqui]

Imran sb, I don't have an issue with Pakistan over a damn Tiger population lol I don't understand the reason for you to be defensive. And you don't have wild Tigers, the few ones that are living are in captives. It's as same as Americans breeding Tigers in Captive. Regardless, it's a good initiative if you can reintroduce in tropical jungles or swamps in Pakistan if available where they thrive.

In the world.

It is the same endeavor as the Giri forest project of Gujarat, India where African lions, lioness are bred in captivity and there numbers increased (they are non native to India) unlike the Bengal tigers.

The bengal tigers and African tigers are bred in national parks and in some safari parks in Pakistan as posts of Imran khan suggests. After few years they get acclimatized to the new topography and land.

 

[Chhatrapati]

It is the same endeavor as the Giri forest project of Gujarat, India where African lions, lioness are bred in captivity and there numbers increased (they are non native to India) unlike the Bengal tigers.

The bengal tigers and African tigers are bred in national parks and in some safari parks in Pakistan as posts of Imran khan suggests. After few years they get acclimatized to the new topography and land.

Asiatic lions are endemic to gir forest. And there are no African Lions in Gir, as cross-breeding or introducing African Lions is banned. There was a time when we tried to do it, but transferred them to Zoos. All you could see is Asiatic Lions in Gir.

Bengal Tigers are again endemic to particular climatic zones, swamp, jungles, rainforests hopefully they survive in the warm weather and not start hunting in populated areas or you can breed them in enclosed zones. I don't know what you mean by African Tigers, don't think there is such a species.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

mean by African Tigers,

meant to say African Lions, so as to differentiate between Asiatic Lions.

You are right, they were present in middle east and mediterranean region as well.

 

[Vapnope]

Pakistan needs to learn a lot from India in this regard. The tiger population has doubled in India which is a marvellous feat of GoI.

I was searching for any conservation society for snakes in Pakistan but so far i couldn't find a single conservation area. People are killing snakes right and left exposing our ecosystem to rodents.

 

[jamahir]

The thing is, if they get the chance, leopards actually kill humans right there on the spot.

Generally not so. See what Imran has posted :

Uzma Khan, director of species conservation at the World Wildlife Fund Pakistan, recently completed a doctoral dissertation that examined the circumstances behind the recent attacks. She concluded that the leopard that killed Noor in January did not consume her, suggesting that the animal mistook the child for other prey. In January 2011, a reported attack on a 35-year-old man turned out not to have been an attack at all. Instead, Khan said, the man fell and hit his head on a rock when a leopard leaped from a bush and startled him.

Dogs on the other hand tend to just bite humans but then people die after a few days due to rabies. That's the difference. Dogs don't attack humans with the intention of killing humans per se unlike the leopards/lions/tigers.

There have been quite a few cases in India of dogs entering hospitals and carrying away new-born infants.

Look at this from Beed, Maharashtra from 2012 :

Some doctors in Beed are disposing of female foetuses by feeding them to dogs in order to destroy evidence of female foeticide.

The shocking revelation was made by Varsha Deshpande of Lek Ladki Abhiyan, an NGO working against the practice.

Maharashtra's Public Health Minister Suresh Shetty also admitted he had heard of foetuses thrown to the dogs in Beed.

Deshpande's allegation is significant as Beed in Marathwada has the worst child sex ratio - 801 girls being born per 1,000 boys (2011 census) - in Maharashtra.

The low percentage of females is attributed to rampant female infanticide in the area.

Last Friday, Vijaymala Patekar (28), was admitted to Dr Sudam Munde's abortion clinic in Beed when she was six months pregnant. She had four daughters and did not want another. But while her pregnancy was being terminated, she died.

The police have arrested Munde and his wife, but Deshpande said the couple were held earlier too for the same offence and will go scot-free again because of their money power and influence.

"We don't want this case to be tried in Beed or Marathwada. Let the case be tried somewhere outside as they wield too much influence for the trial to be fair," she said.

Deshpande claimed her organisation had conducted a sting operation on the doctor in 2010, in which he openly talked about how he was aborting female foetuses and feeding them to his five dogs.

It was then that the police had arrested him, but he was released soon and continued with his activities.

"A person even saw a foetus being fed to the animals. This is known to everyone in Beed, but the police are not taking action as Munde is influential," Deshpande said.

She added that some other doctors in Beed kept dogs for the same purpose - to avoid the hassle of disposing of the bodies.

Health Minister Shetty said: "I have heard of the practice but have no evidence."

He added that since the local police seemed to be under a lot of "pressure", he had decided to ask the crime branch to investigate the latest case.

Substantiating Deshpande's account of the kind of clout enjoyed by Munde, Shetty said: "Our civil surgeon who had gone to investigate Munde's hospital was locked up in a room by some goons. They even abused her and asked her to go away."

The minister said the surgeon while trying to take action against such doctors had been facing threats for more than a year. "We have asked the home department to provide security for our staff," he said.

And this ( Wikipedia entry ) is from Kerala :

Death in Varkala

In October, 2016, a 90-year-old man was killed in Varkala by the attack from a pack of street dogs. The old man was sleeping on the veranda of his house when a group of dogs attacked him. The angry people killed more than 90 dogs in the locality on the following day of the old man's death.

You can find more about stray dog attacks on this page.

From the same Wikipedia page are these :

Arrest of social worker

In 2016, a social worker from Cochin called Jose Maveli was arrested for killing street dogs in large number. It was reported that Maveli killed about 25 stray dogs in Chengamanad panchayath of Ernakulam district. In December 2016, Jose Maveli was asked by the Supreme Court of India to appear before it.

Stray Dog Free movement


Kochouseph Chittilappilly [ jamahir : He is the owner of the famous V-Guard company ] is the chairman of the Stray Dog Free movement, which advocates action against the risks allegedly posed by stray dogs in Kerala, including the amendment of legislation forbidding the killing of these dogs. The movement has pointed to the danger of rabies and referred to stray dogs as a "menace". Chittilappilly has staged hunger strikes to protest this legislation, and what he claims is governmental failure to address this issue. He has stated that the government's actions amount to valuing stray dogs over human lives and property. He has encouraged citizens to pressure the government to amend these laws, and to kill stray dogs themselves despite the accompanying 50-rupee fine. Chittilappilly has been arrested under statutes preventing cruelty to animals after tying four stray dogs in front of a police station

State government position

Kerala's minister K.T. Jaleel stated that the government will cull all the stray dogs before 2019 with the help of the local bodies. The chief minister of Kerala, however, did not support such a mass level of culling

It's also because they stray into human territory as they lose more and more forested land to humans.

Yes, about leopards I agree.

Coming to stray dogs, I think they should be given some medication such that their bite marks don't give rabies to people. Yes, I agree that we see too many strays nowadays and their population needs to be controlled. How it should be controlled? I think the authorities should decide that.

1. There are 35+ million stray dogs in India as from a count from some years ago. How to medicate all of them ?

2. Medication doesn't remove their killer instinct.

You gave the example of Maneka Gandhi, but it's not just her. Dog is one of the most social animals and I think it's the animal that's loved the most by humans.

Has Maneka Gandhi ever spoken about the almost extinct status of the small cats in India ? She is responsible for the genocide of cats because she was the one who passed the law in the late 90s forbidding killing of stray dogs. And these dogs have killed off cats in the country. Maneka Gandhi isn't bothered by the torturous way that dogs kill cats.

Maneka Gandhi should be severely punished.

Compared to the situation in India watch this trailer of the documentary Kedi that is about the cats of Istanbul.