Pakistan's houbara bird facing extinction
The indiscriminate hunting of endangered houbara bustard birds in pakistan by rich hunting parties from the gulf nation have pushed the species toward extinction. The hunting was initially banned by the pakistani courts,but under contionuous pressure from the provincial goverments of sind, baluchistan,and punjab,as well as the faradel government,rencently the courts lifted the ban on the hunting of this vulnerable species.