Celebrities like Ahsan Khan, Shaneira Akram, Areeba Habib, Ahmed Ali Butt, and Anoushey Ashraf have spoken out against the zoo’s inhumane treatment of animals.

A contractor in charge of feeding food to animals at the Karachi Zoo has stopped all deliveries due to a lack of payment from the Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC).

Shaneira Akram in an Instagram post wrote, “We do not deserve a zoo if ALL animals are not cared for correctly! These animals are our responsibility, they can’t talk, they can’t say I’m hungry and they can’t tell you they are in pain. We have all the space in the world in karachi, and inner city cement jungle is not good enough. If we can not provide food, water and proper enclosures that mimic natural eco habitats then we are failing not only the animals but our people.”