This year, 16 international trophy hunting permits for the Punjab urial have been auctioned. Foreign hunters have shown ...

For a country drowning in debt, the trophy hunting of rare mammals like the urial is a valuable opportunity for generating income. However, in this tactful truce between keen hunters and the pliant ...

The urial (Ovis orientalis vignei), also known as the arkars or shapo, is a subspecies group of the wild sheep Ovis orientalis. Noticeable features are the reddish-brown long fur that fades during ...

It is still early in the morning as Chakwal district’s wildlife officer Mirza Abid Hussain leaves his office on a field visit to the Salt Range. His brow is furrowed as he worries over a nagging ...

The Salt Range, spreading from tehsil Dina in Jhelum to Kalabagh in the Mianwali district, is a scenic terrain with its unique flora and mystic heritage sites. But what makes the valley more ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTXL) — A Galt man is facing a possible ...

For Munib Khanyari, the species which symbolises his mountain home isn’t the snow leopard, Tibetan wolf, or any of the iconic animals of Ladakh. Although the arid plateau is home to seven other ...

The population of the rare Urial species in Punjab's Salt Range has shown a significant increase, thanks to the persistent efforts of the Wildlife Department. The Urial, once difficult to spot, can ...