Mehrano Wildlife Sanctuary

Mehrano Wildlife Sanctuary is an enhanced riverine forest preserved by the Talpur Mir royal family of Khairpur Princely state. Mehrano Forest is the home to approximately 4,000 big game animals, including blackbuck, Indian gazelle, hog deer, wild boar. Additionally the forest lake boasts resident and migratory birds from Siberia and Europe. There is a reserved place for Tourist to see furious wild boars, which are called upon in a unique way by the caretaker, who wears an orange Russian cap. H. H. Mir Ali Murad Khan Talpur II, head of the royal house, has forbidden all hunting except of the jackal and an annual culling of wild boars which become a mortal threat toadjacent farmers and their families when boar population becomes too large for the forest to hold. The Mehrano reserve shares its boudary with the Cholistan desert.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Munira Abbas, Essa Malik (January 24, 2015). "Discovering Sindh". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Discovering | Pakistan News Today". pakistannewstoday.4com.co. Retrieved 22 January 2016.

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