Since 2005, the WWF organization has been warning of the dangers that overfishing, deforestation and global warming represent for the lagoon.
As the Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS) describes it very poetically, the lagoon looks like “blue ink flowing on parchment”. The green islands are actually pieces of mangrove forests. Additionally, as the US Geological Survey explains, the blue of the lagoon has been altered to appear deeper and stand out more easily from the desert environment.
A desert region and a blue lagoon
Kalmat Khor is located precisely in the south of Pakistan, near the Makran coastal range (Pakistani province of Balochistan), “about 290 kilometers west of Karachi”, the economic and financial capital of the country and largest city in Pakistan, as reported by Live Science.
As stated by the Center for Observation and Science of Earth Resources, this lagoon “branches into the Arabian Sea and flows into the landscape of southern Pakistan,” which means it is a tidal lagoon. Therefore, when the Arabian Sea is at low tide, the lagoon empties completely.
An ecosystem in its own right
The Kalmat Khor Lagoon not only provides beautiful aerial photos. It is also a true natural oasis for the region, which is particularly desert and arid, with very little annual rainfall. Thanks to water, an ecosystem has been built, particularly within mangrove forests…
Indeed, as Live Science states, these forests are an important shelter for multiple forms of life, such as fish and other small crustaceans. They are also important for the populations who reside along the lagoon, since they provide wood. Even at low tide, the lagoon is useful for birds which come to search the still wet sand in search of small fish to put under their beaks.
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