Comments on: All’s whale

By: Yasir

Yasir — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I feel really bad after watching people dancing on the dead body of this mammal.

By: Jameel ur Rasheed

Jameel ur Rasheed — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Very well said indeed!

By: Fareed Ahmed

Fareed Ahmed — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I am very excited about it but no further details was available about the big giant.It would be the irresponsibility of the department to look into the matter and efforts be made to preserve its parts so that the knowledge about the sea animals living in our sea can be shared with the rest of the world.

By: Sharma Anil ( India )

Sharma Anil ( India ) — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

There is nothing much to learn about the skeleton of a whale. If the bones are preserved in a museum you can expect more revenue from the ticket collection. 69 feet is awesome !

By: Shakeel GHOURI

Shakeel GHOURI — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Only this is the biggest factor which is contributing in our downfall as a nation. None of us feels about his responsibility and remain unknown from the relevant duties.

By: Khizr

Khizr — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Not everything is a government responsibility guys. Volunteers, activists and enhusiast should have the will to do what they believe in. Edhi foundation, Citizens Foundation, etc. are example of what people can achieve if they put their minds to it.

By: William

William — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In Australia we have seen increasing numbers of whales wash up dead, but this is thought to be due to the fact that as most whaling has stopped their numbers are increasing so we are just seeing the natural deaths more often.
From what I read in the original article about this whale most of the head was missing and only part of the lower jaw remained. This would not make such a good example to display. And stripping a full whale carcass is not something you do lightly it is a BIG and expensive task. Even if you just pull the whale onto solid ground and let it decay can take months. I work for an environmental department here in Australia and our policy is to bury the whale if its in our parks. If its on government beach than they have to bury it for health reasons. I do think having a whale skeleton is a good draw card for museums but it has to be big and complete. I am sure if the museums of Pakistan put out a call to other world museums for material you may be able to find one that has a spare to donate.

By: Iqbal

Iqbal — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

No preliminary post-mortem examination is another thing but our universities or collages also did show interest to examine for research for the knowledge of students , may be because of Karachi situation or lack of funds or they just lost interest in education.

By: A. Khan

A. Khan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Good point made in this article. In my view, the responsibility should lie with Sindh Wildlife Board. However, they would argue that since the animal was already dead, they are not responsible. Fair enough but they are responsible for all living animals and therefore they are duty bound to find the causes of death of this animal, as pointed out in article and elsewhere. But getting the skeleton together for education purposes should have been up to Natural History Museum and whatever ministry they fall under.

Cantonment Board Clifton undertook chopping and disposal of the carcass to prevent the spread of disease. But spreading it around open plots, who came up with that idea ? Wasn’t this going to increase the risk of spreading disease ?

The fault lies not only with system but sub standard and mediocre staff (and this includes senior maangement/director/chairman etc.) who attain positions of power where they have no knowledge or motivation to do anything beyond the ritual daily tea drinking, reading newspapers and discussing politics.

We can disband these and other government departments, savings crores of rupees without an iota of impact on our environment simply because they don’t do anything in first place.

By: zedi

zedi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I personally think in a bigger picture this is merely a drop in series of incompetency whether its the Cantonment Board Clifton, wildlife departments or any part of the system if you choose. Having said that, it much easy to watch/read this and point fingers. I think the blame goes to me, you and every other pakistani enduring under such atrocities, some of which has been summarized above as well as repeatedly through various media. Yet has been all talk.
so unless I do something, even as little as awareness or lack of neglect within my household (specially a call to people who still have a shred of morality and are in a capacity to make changes) nothing will change.