ENVIRONMENT-PAKISTAN: SAVE THE HOUBARA BUSTARD!

Inter Press Service English News Wire | November 19, 2003| | Copyright

Zofeen Ebrahim
Inter Press Service English News Wire
11-19-2003
KARACHI, Pakistan, Nov. 19 (IPS/GIN) -- Come winter and the
houbara bustard issue resurfaces in Pakistan like the endangered
and shy desert bird itself.
If it is not the row over its hunting, then it is people looking
the other way while falcons, traditionally used in the hunt, are
smuggled out.
There is also diplomacy and brotherly relations with the Arabs,
who for centuries have used falcons to hunt houbaras, that
activists say makes conservation a difficult task.
This year, the houbara hunting season started with a row in
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