A 40-member team of conservation experts assisted by trained fishermen and veterinarians caught healthy male a Ganges river dolphin and successfully satellite tagged, allowing the scientists to ...

The Ganges dolphin is an indicator species, whose status provides information on the overall condition of the ecosystem and of other species in that ecosystem.

Assessment is part of a project that began in 2016 and is scheduled to end in March 2026, aimed at devising conservation ...

and habitat utilisation of this endangered species in India. Calling it a “historic milestone”, Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav said the first-ever tagging of Ganges River Dolphin ...

particularly river dolphins, otters, freshwater turtles and gharials (small bulbous-nosed crocodiles). The Ganges River basin is the most populated in the world, home to more than 650 million people, ...

The Indian government has invested in cleaning it up and have had some success. Recent years have seen the return of the Ganges river dolphin, an endangered species. In one sense, said Sen, this ...

In a first, India has tagged a healthy male Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) in Assam, which will help chalk out a long-term conservation plan for the endangered species ...

River dolphins are some of the most endangered of all the world's cetaceans and at risk of extinction from habitat loss, hunting by humans, and naturally low numbers. Formerly quite abundant, the ...

If all goes well, the move will help generate a range of information on the species, which is endangered and also India’s national aquatic animal. Since 2015, The Wire has fearlessly delivered ...

particularly river dolphins, otters, freshwater turtles and gharials (small bulbous-nosed crocodiles). The Ganges River basin is the most populated in the world, home to more than 650 million people, ...