Wildlife: Committee formed to purchase new animals

The DG said that the committee would be required to determine prices for the animal and bird species

LAHORE:

Wildlife Department Director General Khalid Ayaz Khan has said that a five-member committee has been constituted to oversee the purchase of new animals for Lahore Zoo.

He was speaking at a special meeting to address the shortage of animals at the facility.



The director general said that the committee would be required to determine prices for the animal and bird species selected for purchase. The vetting process would be made comprehensive to ensure that only firms with good repute were selected for the purchase, he added.

The director general said that once the recommendations of the committee were available, a summary would be sent to the chief minister for approval. The animal and bird species to be purchased are: a female rhinoceros, a male hippopotamus, two female red deer, two female Asiatic wolves, two male and four female wallabies, two female sika deer, one male and two female black and white colobous monkey, two female vervet monkeys, one male and two female capuchin monkeys, two female otters, two female lamas, one pair guanaco, a pair of African chimpanzee, a pair of land tortoise, a pair of puma, a pair of black leopard, a pair of giraffe, a pair of Asian orangutan, a pair of hyanae, a pair of crowned crane, a pair of crowned pigeon, a pair of scarlet macaw and a male  and two female embrast pheasant and a pair of swinhoes pheasant.



The five-member committee includes Wildlife Director Agha Aizaz Ibrahim, Lahore Zoo Director Shafqat Ali and Deputy Director Syed Zafar ul Hassan, and Lahore Safari Zoo Park Management Committee members Abdul Aleem Chaudhry and Badar Munir.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 15^th, 2015.