The lion was between 14 and 15 years old and brought to Karachi Zoo from Africa in 2012.Ī team of veterinarians performed an autopsy on the lion and collected details about illness and death.Īccording to veterinarians, the lion also had pneumonia and the lion’s lungs had stopped working.Īdministrator Karachi Barrister Murtaza Wahab said that he was saddened to learn of the death of a rare breed of white lion at Karachi Zoo as white lions are rare in the world. Among various other campaigns, they are engaged in efforts to save the city's stray dogs from being culled by either vaccinating or neutering them.KARACHI, Nov 24 (APP):Administrator Karachi Barrister Murtaza Wahab on Wednesday sought a report regarding the death of a rare white lion died at Karachi Zoo.Īccording to Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Spokesman Ali Hassan Sajid, the lion had been ill for the last 13 days and was suffering from Pulmonary TB which was being treated by veterinarians but he could not recover and died. The ACF is an organisation that has made a name for itself in Karachi for its animal welfare efforts. The KMC denied such reports and called them "propaganda", saying that the zoo had feed for a week for the animals. Outrage grew after a video of a starving lion, allegedly at the Karachi Zoo, went viral. Reports that the food supplies for animals at the Karachi Zoo had been halted over lack of payment by the KMC were also shared on social media before the animal's death. I know this because when circumstances plunged me into darkness when I was a child, they saved mine and I’ll spend the rest of my life trying my hardest to save theirs." That’s how important they are in our lives. Teach your kids to appreciate the raw magnificence of animals and you would see a different society.
#A white lion free#
All I know is that we have a culture that thrives on caging wild hearts and in breaking free spirits. "I don’t know what happened to this lion. I hate how selfish we are, how bloody arrogant and how we can make everything about ourselves. I don’t understand our sick need to control and tame the wild, like being wild is a bad thing. She also shed light on what motivates her to work for animal welfare. And guess what? I had the luxury to leave and go home while they spent day after day, year after year, life becoming a dizzy time-lapse of dullness punctuated by bouts of frustration." "I couldn’t articulate my feelings at the time but I felt what the animals felt. Then I saw young boys laughing while throwing soda bottles and wrappers in the lion’s cage to get a rise out of him.
And I screamed and asked my mum to leave because it wasn’t nice that people were teasing her. "She wanted everyone to stop leering at her. "I picked up on this when I first went to the zoo at five and I saw an elephant angrily throwing food on people," she wrote. Why can’t we just let it be that way? Why do we have to hungrily trap them as they unassumingly go about their business, bring them to polluted urban choke-holds and lock them behind iron bars? What’s the fascination in seeing a distressed lion up close who is completely uncomfortable in his surroundings?" she asked.Ĭhundrigar shared her experience of visiting a zoo for the time, recalling how disturbed it made her feel as a young child. Just something like The Lion King or National Geographic. We have all seen them on TV, living life in their natural habitats.
REUTERS/Jon Nazca Francisco Jimenez, breeder, feeds a five-day-old female white African lion cub at the La Pequena Africa (Little Africa) animal reserve in Jimena de la Frontera, Spain, October 29, 2021. "I’ve never understood the fascination with imprisoning animals. Two rare white African lion cubs were born on Sunday (October 24) in an animal reserve in southern Spain. "In my meeting today with Nasir Shah, Minister for Local Government, I requested him to please end the zoo culture and either move all the animals to sanctuaries abroad or to make wildlife sanctuaries where animals run wild and free," she wrote.Ī post shared by Churail Sarwat also shared her feelings when it comes to caging animals in zoos.
The ACF founder took to Instagram to share the news of her meeting with Shah. Many netizens and celebrities were outraged by the lion's death, calling for an end to zoos in Pakistan on social media. The animal's death was caused by pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumonia, according to the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC). She asked for sanctuaries to be made or for the animals to be shifted abroad.Ĭhundrigar's meeting came a day after news of the death of a rare white lion at Karachi Zoo spread on social media. Animal rights activist Ayesha Chundrigar - founder of the animal rescue organisation ACF - does not think highly of zoos and recently met Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Shah to request an end to "zoo culture" in an effort to curb animal neglect.
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