Overview
- The sighting, confirmed Friday, November 6, 2026, was recorded about 40 nautical miles southwest of Karachi during a WWF‑Pakistan expedition led by board member Zahid Maker.
- WWF‑Pakistan estimated the animal at roughly 45 feet long and published video showing the whale’s single blowhole, distinctive skin markings, and a prominent hump that identify it as a sperm whale.
- The organisation noted earlier sperm whale records off Pakistan’s Balochistan coast, but said this is the first documented encounter specifically in Sindh waters.
- WWF‑Pakistan warned that fishing gear entanglement, vessel strikes, and marine pollution threaten large whales and called for sustained research, systematic monitoring, and stronger conservation measures.
- The sighting adds to WWF‑Pakistan’s catalogue of 26 cetacean species in national waters and could prompt targeted surveys of offshore habitats and fisheries practices in the Arabian Sea.