{"id":58667,"date":"2019-12-14T10:13:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T10:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58667"},"modified":"2020-01-28T06:25:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:25:06","slug":"pakistans-coastline-home-rare-breed-octopus-wwf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistans-coastline-home-rare-breed-octopus-wwf.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s coastline home to rare breed of octopus: WWF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The fishermen trained by the World Wild Fund (WWF) for Nature \u2013 Pakistan have spotted various species of the blanket octopus, stated to be a rare breed of the order Octopoda, in three different areas along the coast of Sindh and Balochistan, according to news sources.<\/p>\n<p>As per the WWF-Pakistan\u2019s official statement, a 0.8-metre-long blanket octopus was spotted in the offshore waters of Balochistan. This was the first live authentic report. Afterwards, some fishermen caught the blanket octopus, while fishing 45 nautical miles south of Ormara, but released it back safely upon discovering the rare find.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/green-pakistan-programme-aims-protect-wildlife-pm-khan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Green Pakistan Programme\u2019 aims to protect wildlife: PM Khan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fishermen trained by the authority have released many specimens of turtles, dolphins, whales, sharks, sunfish and other sea life into waters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/thar-declared-major-vulture-sanctuary-sindh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thar declared major vulture sanctuary in Sindh<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/survey-launched-identify-endangered-wildlife-species.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWF-Pakistan<\/a>\u2019s Technical Advisor Muhammad Moazzam Khan said that this octopus breed was not discovered in Pakistan until now, and called it a new addition to the national biodiversity. He explained that these octopuses were oceanic cephalopods found in surface-to-mid-waters in subtropical and tropical oceans. The rainbow-hued octopus gets its name from the sheets of webs that stretch between its tentacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The fishermen trained by the World Wild Fund (WWF) for Nature \u2013 Pakistan have spotted various species of the blanket octopus, stated to be a rare breed of the order Octopoda, in three different areas along the coast of Sindh and Balochistan, according to news sources. As per the WWF-Pakistan\u2019s official statement, a 0.8-metre-long blanket octopus was spotted in the offshore waters of Balochistan. This was the first live authentic report. Afterwards, some fishermen caught the blanket octopus, while fishing 45 nautical miles south of Ormara, but released it back safely upon discovering the rare find. Read:\u00a0\u2018Green Pakistan Programme\u2019 aims to protect wildlife: PM Khan The fishermen trained by the authority have released many specimens of turtles, dolphins, whales, sharks, sunfish and other sea life into waters. Read:\u00a0Thar declared major vulture sanctuary in Sindh WWF-Pakistan\u2019s Technical Advisor Muhammad Moazzam Khan said that this octopus breed was not discovered in Pakistan until now, and called it a new addition to the national biodiversity. He explained that these octopuses were oceanic cephalopods found in surface-to-mid-waters in subtropical and tropical oceans. The rainbow-hued octopus gets its name from the sheets of webs that stretch between its tentacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":46044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[14428],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-details-on-pakistans-coastline-home-to-rare-breed-of-octopus-wwf","9":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan&#039;s coastline home to rare breed of octopus: WWF - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The fishermen trained by the World Wild Fund (WWF) for Nature \u2013 Pakistan have spotted various species of the blanket octopus, stated to be a rare\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistans-coastline-home-rare-breed-octopus-wwf.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan&#039;s coastline home to rare breed of octopus: WWF - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The fishermen trained by the World Wild Fund (WWF) for Nature \u2013 Pakistan have spotted various species of the blanket octopus, stated to be a rare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistans-coastline-home-rare-breed-octopus-wwf.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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