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| Saving the houbara |
| 2015-08-21 |
| [DAWN] THE Supreme Court’s decision to ban hunting of the houbara bustard is the right step which should ideally have come much earlier, and without opposition from any quarters in the country. But the hunting of same was prohibited when the Pak bigshots granted the permits to continue the extermination to the Arabians' even bigger shots. In a ruling on Wednesday the court cancelled all hunting permits, fulfilling a long-voiced demand that has been calling for saving the bird whose numbers have by some recent counts decreased to less than 100,000 globally. The endangered species was left without protection and at the mercy of visiting royalty from the Gulf states in defiance of good sense and knowledge. |
| Posted by:Fred |