​Indus Dolphins

  • The Punjab government along with WWF-India would be conducting the first organised census of Indus Dolphins, one of the world’s rarest mammals, to establish the accurate population of the dolphins, in order to plan the conservation of the species accordingly.
  • The dolphins are found only in India and Pakistan, confined to the 185 km stretch between Talwara and Harike Barrage in India’s Beas River in Punjab.
  • The Indus river dolphins are one of the only four river dolphin species and subspecies in the world that spend all of their lives in freshwater.
  • Only 1,816 dolphins are reported to e ist presently in ....
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