By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: December 2, 2019 8:52:57 am
Telling Numbers: 1,275 Gangetic dolphins in UP, another 962 in Assam rivers
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed the Gangetic dolphin as an endangered species in India. According to the WWF, the main threat to the Gangetic dolphin is the creation of dams and irrigation projects.
At last count, the rivers of Assam and Uttar Pradesh respectively had 962 and 1,275 Gangetic dolphins, India’s national aquatic dolphin. These numbers were tabled in Parliament recently by Minister of State for Environment and Forest Babul Supriyo. BJP member Rajiv Pratap Rudy had asked whether the government has carried out an assessment of the population and habitation areas of the Gangetic dolphin in the country; Supriyo replied that such assessments are done by respective state Forest Departments and the data are not collated in the Union ministry. He tabled the figures for Assam and UP based on information received from the two state governments.
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