September 12, 2024

The Islamabad Wildlife Management Board’s (IWMB) rescue centre has said that the condition of an injured female leopard, rescued from Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), has deteriorated recently. The news of the injured leopard’s critical condition comes after doctors at the Islamabad Wildlife Rescue Center (IWRC) found four bullet wounds in the leopard’s body in an X-ray report. The doctors have managed to remove one bullet from the wild cat’s wounds while two remain stuck near the leopard’s spine and one near the chest. The injured leopard was rescued from a water channel in AJK’s Haveli area by wildlife guards from the Azad Kashmir Wildlife Department from on September 7. It was then handed her over to the IWMB for treatment at the board’s rescue center, called the Islamabad Wildlife Rescue Center (IWRC). At the time of the leopard’s rescue, the animal was unable to stand or move its hindlegs despite exhibiting no visible external wounds or bleeding, leading the team to suspect severe internal injuries. The rescue team had managed to secure the startled animal by placing a rope around its neck and then safely encaging it in a net. The rescue team was forced to use traditional methods to rescue the animal due to a lack of specialised equipment, such as a dart gun. Source: https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1229637-rescued-injured-female-leopards-condition-deteriorates-in-islamabad

Severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria has killed at least 30 people and affected more than one million others, the authorities have said. The collapse of the Alau dam on the Ngadda river in Borno State on Tuesday caused some of the state’s worst flooding since the same dam collapsed 30 years ago, and prompted residents to flee their homes. The state government said on Wednesday that the dam was at capacity due to unusually high rains. Officials expected the death toll to rise. The current flooding comes nearly two years after Nigeria’s worst flooding in a decade killed more than 600 people across the country. Ezekiel Manzo, spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency, on Wednesday put the death toll at 30. “One million people have been affected so far,” said an aide for Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum, adding that as efforts to document displaced people begin, that number could rise to nearly two million. The swirling waters partially destroyed a local zoo and several animals escaped. Mary Mamza, a Maiduguri resident, said people were afraid to leave their homes after an escaped crocodile was killed near her home. West Africa has experienced some of its worst flooding in decades. More than 2.3 million people have been affected so far this year, which is a threefold increase from last year, according to the United Nations. African nations are losing up to 5 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) every year as they bear a heavier burden than the rest of the world from climate change, a new report said on Monday after one of the continent’s hottest years on record. The World Meteorological Organization said many African nations are spending up to 9 percent of their budgets for climate adaptation policies. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/12/floods-in-northeastern-nigeria-affect-1-million-people

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