KARACHI: After Sindh High Court (SHC) took notice of the plight of ‘Rano’ Karachi Zoo brown bear, the Karachi Zoo administration, provided much-needed relief to bear after the installing an air-cooler inside the animal’s enclosure.
The SHC ordered the zoo administration to install the air-cooler after citizens filed a petition seeking the relocation of the bear due to insufficient facilities and its worsening condition at the Karachi Zoo.
The petitioners submitted that the bear required special attention for its survival and that Rano belonged to a breed called a Syrian brown bear.
The petitioners claimed that it had been forcibly separated from its parents, which was an act of cruelty as the baby bear was still at an early age and could not survive without the parents.
They said that Syrian brown bears can only survive in a cold atmosphere as its habitat was mountainous forests, grasslands and meadows. The lack of such an atmosphere had made the brown bear extinct from countries like Syria and its neighbouring region.
