Dumping Threatens Endangered Indus Dolphin

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	Dumping Threatens Endangered Indus Dolphin

Gul Agha

12-17-2008 10:45 PM

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animals, environment, south asia, dolphins, sindh, rivers

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2622fc28-9f01-451a-8bc2-a1544ba030e8/B88F5734-0E37-417C-863C-4AF51BBA770B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C12%5C18%5Cstory_18-12-2008_pg12_6" href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C12%5C18%5Cstory_18-12-2008_pg12_6" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailytimes.com.pk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C12%5C18%5Cstory_18-12-2008_pg12_6">Another mutilated Indus Blind Dolphin, the world’s rarest animal and an endangered species, was found dead in the Sanghar district. After the death of this second dolphin, the number of Blind Dolphins between the Sindh Guddu and Kotri barrages has fallen from a total of 821 to 819. The appearance of these dead dolphins at different locations off the Indus River, reveal that a major environmental disaster has hit the protected Indus River Dolphin Reserve, which is also a Ramsar site. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C12%5C18%5Cstory_18-12-2008_pg12_6"><DIV>Even though, this is the second dolphin that was found dead within a week, the Sindh Wildlife Department has not made any efforts to discover the causes behind the deaths of these dolphins. Experts of a local environment organization, Ideal Rural Development Organization (IRDP), disclosed that the dumping of highly contaminated toxic waste, including chemical waste from tanning industries in Punjab, can be held as a possible reason for the deaths of these dolphins.   </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B88F5734-0E37-417C-863C-4AF51BBA770B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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