Snow leopard dies at Peshawar Zoo

Environment Secretary Nazar Hussain Shah orders inquiry into the incident

PESHAWAR: After the death of a deer two weeks ago, the Peshawar Zoo lost another precious animal: a snow leopard.

The death, which took place on Wednesday, has prompted Environment Secretary Nazar Hussain Shah to order an inquiry into the incident and has directed that a report should be submitted to his office within seven days. The zoo administration, however, declined to comment on the issue.



A wildlife official told The Express Tribune that per the initial autopsy report, leopard did not die due to the change in weather with maximum temperatures hovering around 26 degrees Celsius on Thursday. The official added that the snow leopard had not been bought by the zoo, rather it was at a wildlife department enclosure in Abbottabad for a decade.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 16^th, 2018.