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Gharial in Pakistan
May 19 , 2023
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- A gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) has been seen in Pakistan’s Punjab province for the first time after three decades.
- It could have been from a population reintroduced on this side of the Radcliffe Line in 2017.
- India has reintroduced the gharial in the Harike wetland which is 50 km from the border
- Between 2017 and 2021, some 94 gharials were released into the Beas River in the Amritsar, Tarn Taran Sahib and Hoshiarpur districts under three phases of the Punjab (India) government’s programme.
- The animals were brought mostly from the Chambal basin in Madhya Pradesh.
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