Endangered Species: Two more blind dolphins found dead

SUKKUR: Two more blind Indus dolphins were found dead in Rohri and near the Sukkur Barrage late on Friday night and Saturday morning. According to deputy conservator Ghulam Mohammad Gadani, the decomposed body found near Rohri was a month old. The one found near the Sukkur Barrage was of a female dolphin, measuring 5.5 feet, weighing 60 kilogrammes and was approximately five years old. Its lungs and other body parts were black, which Gadani attributed to pollution in the river. The total number of dead dolphins since January has now become 28.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 13^th, 2011.