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A new survey finds India's rivers host around 6,327 river dolphins - 6,324 Gangetic and just three Indus dolphins. A majority ...
The federal environment, forest and climate change ministry released a field guide in 2022 – Monitoring Ganges and Indus River Dolphins, Associated Aquatic Fauna, and Habitat – which noted a ...
Significant differences prove Indus river dolphin and Ganges river dolphin are two separate species After two decades of research, scientists have recognised the Endangered Indus and Ganges river ...
The fishermen then tried to sell the body of the Ganges River dolphin as a rare fish. When they failed, the men gave up and dumped it outside a museum -- where a large crowd tried to catch a peek ...
is the largest of the four known species of river dolphin. The others live in the Ganges in India and the Indus in Pakistan, in the Yangtze in China, and in the Río de la Plata between Argentina ...
There are two closely related species of river dolphin in South Asia: the Indus dolphin, locally called the bhulan, and the Ganges dolphin or susu. Both are classified endangered by the International ...
One of the river’s most at-risk animals is the Ganges river dolphin. There used to be tens of thousands of them, but now only around 1,200-1,800 are left in the river. Biggest threats to them include ...
One rare dolphin species -- the Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji -- is extinct. Another, the Ganges River dolphin, is critically endangered. Some of the threats affecting the Irrawaddy are man-made.
A small population of the Indus river dolphin, a close relative of the Ganges river dolphin, is found in the Indus river system in India. Monitoring dolphin populations is crucial for conservation ...
India's longest and most holy river, the Ganges, is home to thousands ... India's rivers host around 6,327 river dolphins - 6,324 Gangetic and just three Indus dolphins. A majority of the Indus ...
The federal environment, forest and climate change ministry released a field guide in 2022 – Monitoring Ganges and Indus River Dolphins, Associated Aquatic Fauna, and Habitat – which noted a ...