The Lahore Zoo has been unable to effectively treat the Bengal tigers
ISLAMABAD: Every year, as the summer season approaches animals are under threat because the zoo administrations across the country are ill-equipped to facilitate them during rising temperatures. They are either unable to provide them with enclosures fit for their needs or unable to provide them with appropriate food required for them to cope with the heat. And effects of this are already visible in the Lahore Zoo where two big cats are affected by a blood parasite.
The Lahore Zoo has not only been unable to effectively treat the Bengal tigers, they have also failed to devise measures to save animals in their confinement from being infected by the deadly parasite that has already created an outbreak in the zoo. These measures could have included keeping already infected animals in isolation. But owing to the incompetency on part of the administration other animals have become vulnerable to being infected by the parasite.
Whether the infected animals will be able to survive the parasite will solely depend on the treatment given to them by the zoo administration, which is currently struggling to do just that. In the wake of these developments, the Punjab government should act without any further loss of time to facilitate zoo animals it so proudly boasts about.
Raheel Ansari
Published in The Express Tribune, March 21st, 2018.
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