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I am 11. I have petitioned an Islamabad court to ban falcon poaching in Pakistan
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Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Falcons seen at the Pakistan Customs office after a bid to smuggle the falcons was foiled in Karachi. Photo: AFP
I am 11 years old and recently filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court seeking a ban on the export of Pakistan’s falcons to foreign countries.
Every year, Pakistan allows foreigners to poach endangered falcons. The falcons are then trained and brought back to Pakistan to hunt the Houbara bustards, a migratory bird that the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists as a “threatened” species.