Pakistani province orders relocation of bear Rano amid rights outcry, exotic-animal ban push

KARACHI: Implementation has begun on the Sindh High Court’s directive to relocate Rano, a brown bear kept at Karachi Zoo, officials said on Wednesday, after a petition highlighted years of neglect, isolation and distress in an unsuitable tropical enclosure. The bear is now set to be transferred to the mountainous Gilgit-Baltistan region, Sindh’s chief secretary Sindh Asif Hyder Shah said. For years, Rano has languished in a tropical urban zoo environment far removed from her Himalayan habitat.

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