The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) conducted the first-ever Ganges River Dolphin tagging in Assam on Wednesday. This initiative, implemented by the Wildlife Institute of ...

Wholphin, a cross between a whale and a dolphin. Image by Mark Interrante from Silicon Valley, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. The Ganges River dolphin, scientifically named Platanista ...

Locally known as Sihu, this marks the first recorded presence of the species in the river since 1998, ending a 25-year absence. The prolonged disappearance of the Ganges dolphin from this waterway ...

The population estimate reveals 6,324 Ganges River dolphins and only 3 Indus River dolphins. (HT file photo) The survey under Project Dolphin was carried out by the Union environment ministry ...

The first population estimation of riverine dolphins in India has revealed the presence of 6,327 dolphins in the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Indus River systems, according to a government report published ...

The first ever Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) was tagged in Assam on Thursday (December 18), in what is being deemed as a historic milestone for Project Dolphin, the movement aimed ...

India has successfully completed the first-ever satellite tagging of the Ganges River Dolphin in Assam, marking an important milestone for Project Dolphin. This is part of the Wildlife Institute of ...

GUWAHATI, Dec 19: A male Ganges river dolphin in Assam was tagged and released with the aim to understand their seasonal and migratory patterns and habitat utilisation, particularly in fragmented or ...

In a first for India, conservationists were successfully able to geotag a Ganges River Dolphin in Assam on Wednesday. This exercise marks an important milestone for Project Dolphin. With this, the ...

This is the first tagging of the species in India under Project Dolphin to undertake a comprehensive range-wide research to develop a conservation action plan. Guwahati: A male Ganges river dolphin in ...