Indus Dolphin Reserve
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Designated | 10 May 2001 |
Reference no. | 1065[1] |
Indus Dolphin Reserve is a Ramsar site[2] located between Guddu Barrage and Sukkur Barrage on River Indus in Pakistan.[3] Stretched on an area of 125,000 hectares, it was designated as a wetland protected site on 10 May 2001.[2] In 1974 it was declared a protected site locally on the recommendation of World Wide Fund for Nature. According to a survey conducted in 1989, there are about 429 Indus river dolphin present.[3]
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