by Amar
GuriroKARACHI: The
worsening economy
and the
environmental
degradation have
forced several gypsy
tribes of Sindh to
leave their
ancestral profession
and move on to more
profitable
occupations.These
gypsies have been
settled in the
outskirts of the
city for centuries
and have started
capturing snakes,
lizards, geckos and
other reptiles in
order to earn their
livelihood, thus,
posing threats to
the wildlife of the
province.A hatching
nursery of leopard
geckos with around
10,000 reptiles is
being run in a small
gypsy colony in
Safora Goth, Gadap
town. Though the
gypsies running such
nurseries
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