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The population of the delta was estimated at 900,000 in 2003 (the total population of Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves was 1.2 million). Within the river delta, about 140,000 people (16% of the population) depended on the mangrove forests for their livelihood, and 60% depended on the forests for fuels.
The Indus River Delta encompasses the region where the Indus River flows into the Arabian Sea. Most of the delta lies in the southern Sindh province of Pakistan with a small portion in the Kutch region of India. The delta covers an area of about 41,440 km 2 (16,000 sq mi), and is approximately 210 km (130 mi) across where it meets the sea.
Vegetation and wildlife of the Indus delta are threatened by the reduced inflow of fresh water, along with extensive deforestation, industrial pollution and global warming. Damming has also isolated the delta population of Indus River dolphins from those further upstream. [59]
The Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves are a large mangrove ecoregion on the Arabian Sea coast of Sindh Province, Pakistan, and the Gulfs of Kutch and Khambhat in Gujarat, India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The mangroves are the seventh largest mangrove forest in the world.
It lies northeast of the peninsular area known as Defence, along Sindh's Arabian Sea coastline, and approximately 1.5 kilometres southeast of Ibrahim Hyderi. [2] It represents the westernmost extent of the Indus River Delta archipelago, with the adjacent Khiprianwala situated further to the south.
Total population; c. 41 million: Regions with significant populations; Pakistan: 39,252,262 [1] [2] ... who are found mainly in the Indus delta region. However ...
The largest saltwater wetland in Pakistan is the Indus River Delta. Unlike many other river deltas, it consists of clay soil and is very swampy. The west coast of the Great Rann of Kutch, east to the Indus River Delta and below the Tharparkar desert, is one of the few places where greater flamingos come to breed.
India contains another large portion (35%) of the Indus Basin's population. The remaining 4% live mostly in Afghanistan, representing a little less than a quarter of the country's population. [2] The Indus Basin is the second most water stressed basin of the world. [8] 93% of the water of the Indus Basin is used for irrigation of agricultural ...