Wildlife of Pakistan

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Indus Dolphin – found in the Indus River, Sindh

 

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Asiatic endangered Pangolin - found in northern Punjab and parts of Balochistan.

 

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Snow Leopard ( National Heritage Animal Of Pakistan )

Found in the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhua, Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir

Wildlife:Ibex (Markhor),the national animal.

 

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Himalayan Ibex in Gilgit Baltistan

baby green turtle at hawke's bay

 

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Indus Dolphin – found in the Indus River, Sindh

This might be and endangered n protected species of dolphins

 

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This might be and endangered n protected species of dolphins

The Indus River dolphin (Platanista minor) is one of the world's rarest mammals and the second most endangered freshwater river dolphin. Approximately 1,100 specimens of this species exist today in a small fraction of their former range, the lower reaches of the Indus River in Pakistan.

Indus river dolphins are one of only four river dolphin species and subspecies in the world that spend all of their lives in freshwater. They are believed to have originated in the ancient Tethys Sea. When the sea dried up approximately 50 million years ago, the dolphins were forced to adapt to its only remaining habitat—rivers. Only about 1,100 exist today in the lower parts of the Indus River in Pakistan. Numbers declined dramatically after the construction of an irrigation system. Most dolphins are confined to a 750 mile stretch of the river and divided into isolated populations by six barrages. They have adapted to life in the muddy river and are functionally blind. They rely on echolocation to navigate, communicate and hunt prey including prawns, catfish and carp.

 

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Villagers kill leopard in AJK’s Leepa valley

The villagers said they killed the big cat with the help of police in self-defence.


MUZAFFARABAD: Villagers on Tuesday killed a leopard in the Mandal area of Leepa Valley in Hattian Bala district, some 100 kilometres away from the capital city of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

The villagers said they killed the big cat with the help of police in self-defence.

Deputy Commissioner Hattian Bala Hamid Kayani told The Express Tribune that the leopard had killed five cattle heads in different villages of Leepa in half an hour before straying into the residential areas.

“The villagers tried their best to scare the big cat away but it became more violent and started charging at them,” he added. “In the end, the villagers sought help from the local police who then killed the leopard to save human lives.”

The director of AJK’s Wildlife and Fisheries Department, Nayeem Iftikhar Dar, said he has ordered an inter-departmental inquiry into the killing of the big cat.

“We have eight watchers in Leepa Valley and if they could not save the endangered leopard then they will have to face the music,” he added. “Leopard is one of the big cats found in the Himalayas region and is living in the upper reaches of Neelum and Leepa valleys.”

 

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Villagers kill leopard in AJK’s Leepa valley

The villagers said they killed the big cat with the help of police in self-defence.


MUZAFFARABAD: Villagers on Tuesday killed a leopard in the Mandal area of Leepa Valley in Hattian Bala district, some 100 kilometres away from the capital city of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

The villagers said they killed the big cat with the help of police in self-defence.

Deputy Commissioner Hattian Bala Hamid Kayani told The Express Tribune that the leopard had killed five cattle heads in different villages of Leepa in half an hour before straying into the residential areas.

“The villagers tried their best to scare the big cat away but it became more violent and started charging at them,” he added. “In the end, the villagers sought help from the local police who then killed the leopard to save human lives.”

The director of AJK’s Wildlife and Fisheries Department, Nayeem Iftikhar Dar, said he has ordered an inter-departmental inquiry into the killing of the big cat.

“We have eight watchers in Leepa Valley and if they could not save the endangered leopard then they will have to face the music,” he added. “Leopard is one of the big cats found in the Himalayas region and is living in the upper reaches of Neelum and Leepa valleys.”

First man encroaches land of forest area and then kills wild life animals when they try to take back there territory

 

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First man encroaches land of forest area and then kills wild life animals when they try to take back there territory

True.
We should leave them to enjoy. like we are.

 

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True.
We should leave them to enjoy. like we are.

Wild animals attack domestic animals when there prey in wild life is not available, this happens when man starts hunting there prey for its own greed

 

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Birds of Sindh (South Pakistan )

Markhor (Ibex ),Pakistan's national animal

 

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Mountain Lynx

 

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Markhor (Ibex ),Pakistan's national animal

Markhor is not Ibex, Ibex is not Markhor. Markhor is Markhor, Ibex is Ibex. And those are Ibex.

 

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Beautiful Ibex near khanjrab pass Gilgit Baltistan