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India's rivers, revered and rich in mythology, are home to unique and endangered creatures. From the Ganges River Dolphin to the rediscovered Chel Snakehead, these aquatic gems face threats like ...
The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...
A recent survey conducted by WWF-India and its partners in the entire distribution range in the Ganges and Brahmaputra river system, which is around 6,000km long, identified less than 2,000 ...
The Ganges river dolphin was “once present in tens of thousands of numbers” but has now “dwindled abysmally” to a population to less than 1,800 in the last century, according to the World ...
image: Fishing on the Ganges view more . Credit: Heather Koldewey. Waste fishing gear in the River Ganges poses a threat to wildlife including otters, turtles and dolphins, new research shows.
Waste fishing gear in the River Ganges poses a threat to wildlife including otters, turtles and dolphins, new research shows. Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news.
Lucknow, India - No fewer than 131 gharials, the critically endangered long-snouted crocodile native to the Northern Indian sub-continent, were recently re-introduced to the river Ganges at the ...
The Ganges River is a 1,500 mile waterway that stretches all the way from the foothills of the Himalayas. It is one of the most polluted in the world, containing urban sewage, animal waste ...
History professor's book traces river from childhood to adulthood, and beyond Sudipta Sen visited Himalayan pilgrim towns along the Ganges River with his family as a 4-year-old, and ingested small ...