Wildlife Authority Recovers Skins of Rare Animals Poached in Islamabad

The Islamabad and Punjab Wildlife Management Boards carried out a joint raid near Khanna Bridge in the federal capital on Friday and recovered the hides of some of the rarest wildlife animals and birds in the area including tigers, leopards, deer, pumas, white peacocks, and chukars partridges.

According to the details, the joint teams of the boards found and seized 20 trophies and skins of protected wild animals.

The wildlife authorities said, “We have found four hides of leopards, and one each of a tiger and a nilgai”.

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The authorities revealed that these species were illegally hunted and their hides were used to sketch drawings and make paintings of the rarest animals and birds in the area.

“One man has been arrested while the other succeeded in fleeing from the spot,” a wildlife official disclosed.


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The official added that the suspects were responsible for buying the hides from poachers and would sell every leopard’s hide claiming it to be the skin of a popular female leopard called ‘Shehzadi’ who has been sighted in the Margalla Hills, Islamabad.

“We will arrest the other accomplices of the accused,” the officials declared.


  • Pouchers skins must be skimmed in the same manner as they did with innocent wild animals.


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