Rab Nawaz, senior director of programmes at the WWF-P, said the Indus ecoregion was rich in biodiversity and was home to a number of endemic species such as the Indus
River dolphin.
Their name means "little cow" in Spanish, and since the Yangtze
River Dolphin was declared functionally extinct in 2006, it has gained the unenviable title of world's most endangered cetacean.
Pakistan is home to magnificent biodiversity most importantly the snow and common leopards, Indus
River dolphin, white-backed and long-billed vultures, Arabian Sea humpback whale among others, which need to be conserved with help of the people.
[USA], Apr 19 (ANI): No matter how friendly a dolphin might appear, the Araguaian
river dolphin of Brazil has remained a mystery.
She suspected it contained the corpse of a pink
river dolphin, a protected species in Brazil.
Kolkata: India's national aquatic animal, the endangered Gangetic
river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica), is rarely visible in the waterways of the Indian Sundarbans.
The Sundarbans is a home to the Asia's last two remaining freshwater dolphin species - the endangered Ganges
River Dolphin and Irrawaddy Dolphin.
The voyage in late June, which AFP was invited to follow, was the last in the series of a project called EcoDrones, which monitors populations of the pink
river dolphin and another type, the tucuxi, or Sotalia fluviatilis.
According to WWF website, the Indus
River Dolphin, locally known as 'Bhulan', is an obligate freshwater cetacean species found in the Indus river, Pakistan.
The area is home to the endangered Irrawady
River Dolphin, although Medusa Mining CEO Boyd Timler previously said a potential mine would be unlikely to affect the dolphins, which reside in a stretch of the Mekong River about 35 kilometres west of the exploration area.
The Indus
River dolphin, known as the second-most endangered freshwater species in the world and listed among the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's threatened species, is struggling for its survival.