Gangetic Dolphins

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has declared the Gangetic Dolphin as the state aquatic animal.

The carcasses of two Gangetic dolphins, suspected to have been killed by poachers, have been recovered from Kamrup Rural district in Assam, a forest official said on Friday.

A pregnant Gangetic river dolphin was found dead in Girijapuri barrage under the Katarniyaghat Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich, an official said on Monday.

A dolphin is beaten to death with sticks and rods by a group of men in a disturbing video that has emerged from Uttar Pradesh. Three men have been arrested after the video went viral on social media.

An elusive Ganges river dolphin was rescued in Uttar Pradesh yesterday after it lost its way and became stranded in a canal.

The ambitious project to conserve Gangetic river dolphins announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be launched in 15 days, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday.

From launching projects to conserve Gangetic dolphins and Asiatic lions to making Ladakh carbon neutral, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his government's plans in the kitty for the protection of the environment on Saturday.

Independence Day 2020: Ten years after Gangetic Dolphins were declared national aquatic animals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday a conservation project for the species. The Project Dolphin aims to conserve the aquatic mammals along the lines of Project Tiger and Project Elephant.

A scientist shares his insight into how technology empowers research, and discusses the tools of the trade that are used to study Gangetic river dolphins.

The natural-gas producing well of the Oil India Limited (OIL) in upper Assam's Tinsukia district continues to spew gas even 10 after the incident, causing grave damage to the region's wetlands and biodiversity. Images shared by locals on social media show gas condensate depositing in the Maguri beel wetland, dead carcasses of endangered Gangetic do...

Amid a spike in coronavirus cases and the first wave of floods in Assam, the state is bracing for yet another crisis - for the last five days an oil well owned by Oil India Ltd in Upper Assam has been releasing natural gas into the air after a leak. Sources said Oil India officials are still working to plug the leak.

Experts 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.

In a curious U-turn, Ministry of Water Resources today said its Minister Uma Bharti's Lok Sabha statement that gangetic dolphins were getting blind because of pollution is "factually correct".

To protect the endangered Gangetic river dolphins, West Bengal will soon have the country's first community reserve for the mammal.

Bihar is planning to start a unified survey of Gangetic dolphins this year as a part of its conservation efforts, officials said today.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has declared the Gangetic Dolphin as the state aquatic animal.

The carcasses of two Gangetic dolphins, suspected to have been killed by poachers, have been recovered from Kamrup Rural district in Assam, a forest official said on Friday.

A pregnant Gangetic river dolphin was found dead in Girijapuri barrage under the Katarniyaghat Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich, an official said on Monday.

A dolphin is beaten to death with sticks and rods by a group of men in a disturbing video that has emerged from Uttar Pradesh. Three men have been arrested after the video went viral on social media.

An elusive Ganges river dolphin was rescued in Uttar Pradesh yesterday after it lost its way and became stranded in a canal.

The ambitious project to conserve Gangetic river dolphins announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be launched in 15 days, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday.

From launching projects to conserve Gangetic dolphins and Asiatic lions to making Ladakh carbon neutral, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his government's plans in the kitty for the protection of the environment on Saturday.

Independence Day 2020: Ten years after Gangetic Dolphins were declared national aquatic animals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday a conservation project for the species. The Project Dolphin aims to conserve the aquatic mammals along the lines of Project Tiger and Project Elephant.

A scientist shares his insight into how technology empowers research, and discusses the tools of the trade that are used to study Gangetic river dolphins.

The natural-gas producing well of the Oil India Limited (OIL) in upper Assam's Tinsukia district continues to spew gas even 10 after the incident, causing grave damage to the region's wetlands and biodiversity. Images shared by locals on social media show gas condensate depositing in the Maguri beel wetland, dead carcasses of endangered Gangetic do...

Amid a spike in coronavirus cases and the first wave of floods in Assam, the state is bracing for yet another crisis - for the last five days an oil well owned by Oil India Ltd in Upper Assam has been releasing natural gas into the air after a leak. Sources said Oil India officials are still working to plug the leak.

Experts 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.

In a curious U-turn, Ministry of Water Resources today said its Minister Uma Bharti's Lok Sabha statement that gangetic dolphins were getting blind because of pollution is "factually correct".

To protect the endangered Gangetic river dolphins, West Bengal will soon have the country's first community reserve for the mammal.

Bihar is planning to start a unified survey of Gangetic dolphins this year as a part of its conservation efforts, officials said today.