Disclaimer note - WWF - Pakistan

Detailed Ecological Assessment Report 2008 – Keenjhar Lake
These areas provide vital nurseries for fisheries that support global communities
and often shelter biodiversity of global importance by virtue of being, in general,
relatively undisturbed ecosystems. The loss of these ecosystems would therefore
suggest potential local, national and global welfare losses. Yet, quantifying those
losses in as accurate a manner as possible, and actually using them to make
more informed decisions about land use and land conversion, is a task of
phenomenal proportions. Economic values associated with healthy mangrove
ecosystems can however be generated through economic analysis that attempts
to measure the use and non-use values of these ecosystems.
Coastal areas of Pakistan in common and Keti Bunder and its adjoining areas in
particular are highly modified landscapes, supporting large, and of course, poor
populations. These areas are under enormous pressures of all sorts not only
because of the large numbers of inhabitants who depend on the resources from
these areas, but more so because of indiscriminate conversion of these areas to
other land uses.
3.8 Physico-chemical properties of water
3.8.1 Sample locations
Map 12 shows the sampling locations of water quality for Keti Bunder. Details of
sampling points can be found in the annexure document.
Map 12 – sampling locations for water quality sampling
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