Tag: Wild

Darra Adamkhel, Pakistan —  When the din of Pakistan's most notorious weapons market becomes overwhelming, arms dealer Muhammad Jahanzeb slinks away from his stall, past colleagues test-firing machine guns, to read in the hush of the local library. "It's my hobby, my favorite hobby, so sometimes I sneak off," ...

URI, BUDGAM AND SRINAGAR —  Fourteen-year-old Shahid Ahmad Ganai took his family's cows for grazing some 200 meters away from his house in Trikanjan, a hilly terrain on the Indian side of Kashmir. But that Sunday afternoon was interrupted with sudden screams. His father, Abdul Jabbar Ganai, 52, and ...

Srinagar: Six days after a minor girl was killed by a leopard, a wild animal on Thursday picked up and took along a 7-year-old boy from Moli Nag Mehak forest area of Dhani Syedian Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district this evening. According to reports said , the boy ...

Last week, a wild bear and its cub were spotted roaming in Srinagar localities, prompting police to ask residents to stay indoors. Wildlife officials later captured the animals in 21 hours. Rashid Naqash, regional wildlife warden, Kashmir, on how the department swings into action when they spot a wild ...

Photo taken on July 4, 2022 shows a flooded road in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. (Photo/Xinhua) Evidence that climate change is causing or contributing to extreme weather events and natural disasters around the world is growing every day, threatening the lives and jobs of hundreds of millions of ...

Bridgeport: Firefighters in Northern California were battling a fresh wildfire that broke out on Monday east of Sacramento. The fire burning in Amador County quickly spread to 959 acres (388 hectares) as of just after 7 pm Monday, according to Cal Fire. The fire agency had said earlier on ...

Health authorities in Mozambique on Wednesday declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s north-eastern Tete province had contracted the disease. According to a press statement by World Health Organization (WHO), this marks the second imported case of wild poliovirus in ...

KIGALI, RwandaMozambique health authorities declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus on Wednesday, the first in the southern African country in three decades.A case was found in a child in northeastern Tete province, who began experiencing paralysis in late March, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).Just one case in ...

JAMSHORO, Pakistan Once an endangered species, the population of the Sindh ibex, or Turkman wild goat, in Pakistan has shown significant growth in the last decade due to a blanket ban on hunting and the protection provided by local communities.The wild goat, which is endemic to southwest Pakistan, and also ...

Investigations show infection is linked to a strain circulating in Pakistan’s Sindh province as WHO sends assistance.Malawi has declared an outbreak of polio after a young child in the country’s capital, Lilongwe, developed the disease in the first case of the wild polio virus in Africa in more than ...