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B Khan, Houbara Bustards, Houbara Bustards being hunted in Pakistan, Houbara Bustards in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Supreme Court Houbara Bustards
Rare Houbara Bustards are back on death row. Under government pressure, the Supreme Court has reversed the hunting ban it had placed on these birds in August 2015 – a ban that was enthusiastically greeted, after many years of lobbying, by environmental bodies throughout the country, as well as overseas.
Now a mere five months later, the same court has acceded to government claims that the continuance of the ban would adversely affect Pakistan’s foreign relations with Arab countries, despite the fact that the Houbara Bustard is on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s ‘Red List’ and is a worldwide ‘Protected Species’. Continue reading