Pakistan: Pakistan’s Rescue 1122 official Muhammad Farooq told on Monday (February 20) that ‘Rescue 1122 of Emergency Punjab Services caught a monkey on Friday (February 17), from the border of Bahawalnagar city (about 260 km from Lahore). Lage had entered Pakistan from India.
After catching the monkey, the rescue team took him to a local zoo in Punjab province of Pakistan. After this, the zoo officials refused to keep the monkey citing lack of space and lack of animal doctor.
hand over the street performer
Zoo officials of Punjab province advised the rescue team to hand over the monkey to a street performer, after which the rescue team handed over the monkey to a local street performer. Rescue team official Farooq said that his department approached the Bahawalnagar Wildlife Department to keep the monkey in the zoo, but the officials refused citing lack of space.
no doctor to treat monkeys
The rescue team official said that there is no extra cage in the zoo to keep the monkey. So the zoo owners said that the monkey should be handed over to a madari (local street performer) for its maintenance. District Wildlife Officer, Bahawalnagar, Munawwar Hasan Najmi told Dawn newspaper that apart from the lack of space in the local zoo, the Bahawalnagar Wildlife Department did not have a single vet to treat the monkeys.
Najmi said that most animals that enter Pakistan from India, especially langurs and monkeys, die of injuries, while the Bahawalnagar Wildlife Department does not have a single vet to treat them.
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