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World Wildlife Day: India has a total of 6,327 river dolphins with UP having the highest number, PM announces multiple wildlife conservation initiatives | India News – The Times of India

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PM Modi releases first-ever riverine dolphin estimation report in country, which estimated a total of 6,327 dolphins (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: India has a total of 6,327 river dolphins with Uttar Pradesh reporting the highest number at 2,397 followed by Bihar (2,220), West Bengal (815), Assam (635) and Jharkhand (162). This is according to…

First-ever tagging of Ganges River Dolphin done in Assam to ‘deepen understanding of their conservation’ | India News – Times of India

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NEW DELHI: In a first-ever such move of satellite tagging of any species in India, scientists of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) on Wednesday tagged a male Ganges River Dolphin and released it in the Brahamputra river in Kamrup district in Assam for gathering critical information about the country’s national aquatic animal.The step will…