I don't know why do we even have a zoo in Karachi when it fails to keep animals alive or provide them a healthy habitat. This is a weird form of recreational outlet where animals are living miserably.
Now six mouflons died in the Karachi Zoological Garden in the last 11 days. Mouflons are one of the two ancestors for all modern domestic sheep breeds and is a species that is facing troubles for long. They are extincting at a fast pace. The mouflons remained in the zoo, they fell in and died one after the other.
A month ago, a male wolf and calves of nilgai (a large Indian antelope) died. The cause of death for the two were never known. Last year, a lioness, an Arabian oryx, Bactarian camel's calf and four newborns of fallow deer died at the zoo also. That's too many dead animals for one zoo I believe.
The Karachi Zoo official was never available to explain why it all happened. The zoo faces financial and human resource issues. It lacks the right expertise required to handle animals - one of the main necessities to run the zoo. In breeding is a major problem and threat to most animals and the zoo has no animal exchange programs to manage breeding needs of the animals.
I guess, with so much of inefficiency, lack of knowledge, expertise and passion to take care of the animals, the zoo should actually close down. What good is it doing to the animals anyway?
