The fishermen then tried to sell the body of the Ganges River dolphin as a rare fish. When they failed ... a large crowd tried to catch a peek, the national Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha news ...

India's longest and most holy river, the Ganges, is home to thousands of dolphins. But their survival is under threat.But these aren't like the ones found in oceans. They don't leap out of the water ...

National Dolphin Day is celebrated across India on April 14, a day dedicated to raising awareness about the ecological ...

and the Southwest Fisheries Science Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the US as well as many other researchers in South Asia. The Indus and Ganges river dolphins are ...

The Ganges river ... the mighty Ganga river now badly contaminated by industries, cities and agriculture. While we help improve the river, we also assist some amazing and unique wildlife: turtles, ...

Locally known as Sihu, this marks the first recorded presence of the species in the river since 1998 ... has taken steps to protect the Ganges dolphin. The National Dolphin Research Centre ...

This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National ... dolphins have fat, bulbous foreheads and skinny, elongated beaks suited to snatching fish from a tangle of branches or to rooting around ...

In the past he used to catch fish in the canals and rivers of Bangladesh’s Sundarbans mangrove forest — one of the world’s largest and habitat to many endangered species, including the Bengal tigers ...

This may be their undoing as the waterways in which they occur the Indus, the Ganges and ... boats and other dolphins and differentiate between the size and species of fish with this echo-location ...

India's first river dolphin estimation report, unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the seventh National Wildlife ... On October 17, 2023, the Ganges dolphin was declared the state aquatic ...

The Ganges river ... the mighty Ganga river now badly contaminated by industries, cities and agriculture. While we help improve the river, we also assist some amazing and unique wildlife: turtles, ...

These are Gangetic dolphins, a species of river dolphin - and India's national aquatic animal - that's found largely in the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system in the northern part of the country.