Gadap s locals panicked after bizarre attack on farm animals
Pakistan
Attack on farm animals occurred in Goth Gajan Baloch, some 50km northwest of Karachi.
Upon being alerted by The News, Sindh Wildlife Department dispatched a team to investigate the incident.
KARACHI: Locals of Gadap Town some 50 kilometres northwest of the port city were left panicking and scrambling for help after a bizarre attack on farm animals left at least five goats dead.
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The unknown wild creature attacked animals at a farm in Gadap in the dark of night, killing at least five goats.
Major panic has gripped the area surrounding the farm that was attacked, with locals saying new housing schemes that have popped up around Gadap, as well as the 136-km superhighway between Karachi and Hyderabad M-9 Motorway has affected the wildlife habitat.
The Sindh Wildlife Department rescued 6,800 sparrows and nightingales from a passenger bus near the Jamshoro Toll Plaza Wednesday morning. According to the department s spokesperson, the birds were being smuggled from Mheer to Karachi. A man was arrested during the raid. Sindh Chief Wildlife Conservator Javed Mahar says that a number of people in Sindh are involved in the business of captivating these birds and then selling them to pet shops across the country.
Leopard shot dead after mauling eight villagers
Big cat is believed to have crossed into Islamkot from India’s Rajasthan state
HYDERABAD:
A stranded leopard attacked and injured eight people in two villages in Islamkot, Tharparkar district, on Monday, before the animal was shot dead by local people, reportedly due to the inaction of the Sindh Wildlife Department.
The leopard had reportedly travelled all the way from the bordering state of Rajasthan in India, local people said.
The animal suddenly appeared in the villages Soonghwari and Bhotaro near Runn of Kutch. It bit the hands and legs of the injured persons, who were taken to the local rural health centre for first aid.
A male common leopard, which is a critically endangered species in Pakistan, was killed by the residents of Thar s Siringhwari district in a human-wildlife conflict on Monday evening, according to the Sindh Wildlife Department. The animal was killed by five men after it attacked their herd of goats, Thar wildlife officer Mir Ejaz said.
Over 7,000 birds set free
SWD teams find unclaimed birds on roof of passenger bus headed to Karachi from Larkana
KARACHI:
Over 7,000 birds were found hidden under caned baskets atop the roof of a passenger bus travelling to the metropolis from Larkana, said officials of the Sindh Wildlife Department on Thursday.
The birds were taken into custody and then released into the wild in a span of few hours.
A passenger coach, named Al-Riaz Coach, was intercepted by a SWD raid party acting on a tip-off near the Punjab Bus Stand in Sohrab Goth area.
Upon finding dozens of caned baskets on the vehicle’s roof and thousands of wild birds, common sparrows, mynas and nightingales - bulbul in the common parlance - the SWD teams questioned the passengers and the coach driver. But no one came forth to claim ownership of the birds.