Varanasi: The forest department has decided to appoint Dolphin Friends for the conservation of Gangetic dolphins in Varanasi ...

Both Gangetic and Indus dolphins are classified as endangered species and receive the highest protection under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.

The river dolphins of India’s sacred Ganges River have been written into Hindu religious tracts dating back thousands of years. So revered, the Ganges River dolphin was one of the world’s first ...

Lahore, Pakistan: River dolphins are descended from marine dolphins and have adapted to life in fresh water, so they are no longer capable of surviving in the sea. This may be their undoing as the ...

47288.jpeg Credit: BIOSPHOTO / Alamy Stock Photo 2YHMAT0 Blue waters of the Karnali river with a Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) coming to breathe at the surface., Bardia or Bardiya ...

The Ganges River dolphin, known for its unique features, is found in the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system and its tributaries across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan.

Ganges river dolphins are now rare throughout Nepal. In 2016, the Department of Wildlife Conservation and National Parks estimated the river dolphin population in the country at 52 individuals: 43 in ...

A recent study reveals alarming levels of toxic chemicals in the Ganga river, endangering the Gangetic dolphins. These freshwater dolphins are exposed to harmful pollutants through their diet ...

"This dolphin is related to the dolphin of the Ganges river in India," Salas said, adding the one found in Peru is much bigger than its living relatives in Asia.

lies the Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary, India’s only protected reserve dedicated to the endangered Ganges river dolphin, locally known as susu. Stretching across nearly 60 kilometres of river ...

Ganges river dolphin in Narayani. The second lesson is to conduct a detailed census of Nepal’s rivers to establish the true population status of its river dolphins, an activity that is in line with ...