As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Friday, 17 January 2014

Wildlife protection: LHC issues notice to federal govt on hunting of birds

LAHORE: 

The Lahore High Court summoned experts from the Worldwide Fund for Nature and the International Union for Conservation of Nature with regard to the safety of migratory birds in Pakistan. The court also issued a notice to the federal government.

The court issued the order on a petition stating that every December millions of birds migrating to Pakistan were hunted in violation of international conventions. The petitioner said the government had issued 25 licences for hunting these birds.

He said wildlife experts had stated that the number of birds migrating to the Punjab had decreased by at least 70 per cent.


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