The census survey of fresh water dolphins started from Bijnore on Tuesday by a joint team of the forest department and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF India). The survey is being conducted in the stretch of Ganges from Bijnore to Narora, which is also a Ramsar site (as per the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands …
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October 11, 2017Experts from Worldwide Fund for Nature-India, who mapped the abundance of and threats to Gangetic dolphins in the Hooghly, say one of the most "striking features" of the study was that the endangered mammals were sighted in highly polluted pockets of the river. The study was conducted by observing and counting dolphins from the riverbank …
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March 23, 2017