A new survey finds India's rivers host around 6,327 river dolphins - 6,324 Gangetic and just three Indus dolphins. A majority ...

River dolphins are some of the most endangered cetaceans in the world ... but also the Ganges, Indus, Irrawaddy and Yangtze rivers. “If the river is gone, the dolphins, the otters, the manatees ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) are classified as ‘Endangered.’ Studies estimate that 4%-5% of ...

Given Punjab’s RQBS will inevitably receive more water than the largest canal in Sindh ever could — why draw from Sindh ... of species like the Indus River dolphin. The Indus River dolphin ...

and Indus (Platanista minor), which serve as bio-indicators of healthy river ecosystems. Both dolphins are classified as Endangered and listed as Schedule I species under the provisions of the Wild ...

Gangetic and Indus dolphins are categorised as endangered and get the highest level of protection under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. Hence, statement 3 is correct. — River dolphins live in ...

The Indus River dolphin has been marked as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

A colonial-era myth about endangered pink river dolphins in the Amazon has led to a false belief that perfumes or pusangas made from their body parts are potent love potions.According to a recent ...

Closely related to the Ganges dolphin, the Indus river dolphin is the State aquatic animal of Punjab. Here, it is found in the river Beas and its Harike wetlands in the Tarn Taran district.

Thatta, Pakistan – On a sunny afternoon at Dando Jetty, a small fishing village in Pakistan’s sprawling Indus Delta, a boat is being unloaded and another is about to leave for the Arabian Sea.