Lost but found: Indus dolphin rescued from pond

SUKKUR: A blind Indus dolphin, which was stuck in a fishing net in a pond near Chak town of Shikarpur, was rescued and released in the Indus River on Tuesday.



According to officials of the WWF-Pakistan, the local fishermen informed them that a blind dolphin got stuck in their fishing net in a pond. Upon receiving the information, a team was sent to the area which rescued the mammal after two hours of effort and then released it back into the Indus River.



Sharing information of the rescued dolphin, a senior project officer of WWF-Pakistan, Sukkur, Imran Malik said the dolphin was a three feet and eight inches-long female that weighed around 20 kilogrammes.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 21^st, 2016.