{"id":62719,"date":"2020-03-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62719"},"modified":"2020-03-13T18:20:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T13:20:42","slug":"govt-satellite-tags-toconserve-indus-river-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-satellite-tags-toconserve-indus-river-dolphins.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt to initiate \u2018satellite tagging\u2019 to conserve Indus River Dolphin species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The federal government has announced its decision to fund a \u2018satellite tagging\u2019 initiative in a bid to prevent the looming threat of extinction faced by the Indus River dolphins, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WB keen to rehabilitate Sukkur Barrage (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-keen-rehabilitate-sukkur-barrage.html\" target=\"_blank\">WB keen to rehabilitate Sukkur Barrage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experts claim that the satellite tagging will offer new insights into the movement, behaviour and threats faced by these dolphin species. The data gathered from the tags attached to these dolphins will strengthen the conservation plans for not only dolphins but other aquatic species inhabiting the River Indus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/red-data-list-in-making-to-protect-endangered-species.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Pakistan\u2019s first Red Data List drafting underway to protect endangered species (opens in a new tab)\">Pakistan\u2019s first Red Data List drafting underway to protect endangered species<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This famous and rare \u2018blind\u2019 species of dolphins are only found in Pakistan. However, their population is dipping dangerously and moving closer towards extinction. To prevent a decline in their population, the wildlife department is planning to conduct a survey to analyse the current status of this situation &#8211; with assistance from the World Wildlife Fund (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistans-coastline-home-rare-breed-octopus-wwf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WWF (opens in a new tab)\">WWF<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WWF-Pakistan Director General\n(DG) Hammad Naqvi recently said that the number of dolphin species witnessed an\nincrease in the last 15 years; further stating it to be the result of a\ncombined effort of the government, welfare firms and local communities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The federal government has announced its decision to fund a \u2018satellite tagging\u2019 initiative in a bid to prevent the looming threat of extinction faced by the Indus River dolphins, according to news sources. Read: WB keen to rehabilitate Sukkur Barrage The experts claim that the satellite tagging will offer new insights into the movement, behaviour and threats faced by these dolphin species. The data gathered from the tags attached to these dolphins will strengthen the conservation plans for not only dolphins but other aquatic species inhabiting the River Indus. Read: Pakistan\u2019s first Red Data List drafting underway to protect endangered species This famous and rare \u2018blind\u2019 species of dolphins are only found in Pakistan. However, their population is dipping dangerously and moving closer towards extinction. To prevent a decline in their population, the wildlife department is planning to conduct a survey to analyse the current status of this situation &#8211; with assistance from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). WWF-Pakistan Director General (DG) Hammad Naqvi recently said that the number of dolphin species witnessed an increase in the last 15 years; further stating it to be the result of a combined effort of the government, welfare firms and local communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":62735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[22997,15769,22995,22996,9490],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-blind-dolphins","9":"tag-endangered-species","10":"tag-govt-to-initiate-satellite-tagging-to-conserve-indus-river-dolphin-species","11":"tag-indus-river-dolphins","12":"tag-wwf","13":"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>Govt to use \u2018satellite tags\u2019 to conserve Indus River Dolphins- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Government has announced to fund a \u2018satellite tagging\u2019 initiative in a bid to prevent the looming threat of extinction faced by the Indus River dolphins\" \/>\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\/govt-satellite-tags-toconserve-indus-river-dolphins.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt to use \u2018satellite tags\u2019 to conserve Indus River Dolphins- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Government has announced to fund a \u2018satellite tagging\u2019 initiative in a bid to prevent the looming threat of extinction faced by the Indus River dolphins\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-satellite-tags-toconserve-indus-river-dolphins.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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