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Campaign to save Ganga dolphins begins [1]

The 'tiger of the Ganga' is the nomenclature for the Ganga river dolphin which enjoys the same status in the river ecosystem as that of a tiger in a forest.

Like the tiger, the dolphin is close to extinction with its numbers having plunged from 6,000 in 1982 to less than 1,800 in 2012. With India losing nearly 160 animals a year, WWF India has launched a three-day awareness campaign, 'My Ganga, My Dolphin', in which they will conduct a survey of the number of dolphins present across a 2,800-km stretch of the Ganga river, along with the Yamuna, Son, Ken, Betwa, Ghagra and Geruwal rivers.

Publication Date: 
04/10/2012
Rashme Sehgal [2]
Asian Age (New Delhi) [3]
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Ganga [4], Dolphin [5], Ecosystems [6], Yamuna [7], Ken [8], Betwa [9], WWF [10], Brahmaputra [11], Biodiversity [12], Nepal [13], India [14], Bangladesh [15], Pesticides [16], Chemical Fertilisers [17], Kanpur (D) [18], River Pollution [19], Allahabad (D) [20], NGO [21], Wildlife [22]

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