Crows eradication programme at Safari delayed

KARACHI - The eradication programme of crows from the Safari Park has been delayed further, as city district government has not appoint air gun shooter so far, it was learnt.
Sources in the park administration said that the city district government has failed to resolve the much-awaited issue of the crows who have made life hell for the animals in Safari Park and Karachi Zoological Garden for the past several years. However, now this issue has become more serious as various precious animals are being planned to be brought here, but surprisingly, the authorities concerned did not take any final decision to resolve the issue by appointing air gun shooter in Zoo and Safari Park.
They said that flock of crows always keep hovering at Safari Park, causing survival threats to the animals placed in the open cages such as Deer, Zebra, Bucks, Ostriches, Camels and other animals.
According to the eyewitnesses, these crows always sit on the backs of the animals, injuring them badly by biting the flesh, causing infectious wounds and holes on their backs.
The animals remained helpless in moving them away from their body. Due to the shortage of staffers and other resources, the Safari administration failed to control this problem and to save the precious animals from the crows, which had made life hell for the caged animals.
Safari Park and Karachi Zoo come under the administrative control of Community Development Department (CDD) of CDGK.
Informed sources in the CDD said that hundreds of crows always gathered there and made life difficult for all those animals living in open cages, while many of these animals have received serious ailments due to crow biting.
Its surprising that these crows made about three inches holes in the backs of Ostriches through biting, as they are settled in the open cadges. Due to many such incidents, Ostriches have been shifted to the closed cadges, but still now the management has failed to protect these species as crows also could managed to enter the netted cages.