Photo credit: Muhammad Hafeez-ur-Rehman (Pakistan) Review: Muhammad Hafeez-ur-Rehman and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)
The inserted photo shows an incidence of rescuing an Indus River dolphin (Platanista gangetica). This species of dolphin is among the world’s most endangered dolphins and has been listed as ‘Endangered’ by the World Conservation Union. It is one of the world’s rarest mammals. The severely declining populations are threatened by declining freshwater supplies, pollution, capture in fishing nets and hunting.
In regard to conserving the Indus river dolphins, Joint rescue teams from WWF-Pakistan and the Sindh Wildlife Department regularly carry out these rescuing operations. Typically, the stranded dolphins are carefully captured, placed on a stretcher, kept moist, and transported in a sound-proof vehicle and released in the main stream of the Indus River.
