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The River Dolphin got the national aquatic animal status
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by nivedita1234 | October 8, 2009 at 10:35 pm
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The docile, friendly but endangered species of river Ganges Dolphins, that is endemic to Indian Sub continent's river systems have been declared as the national aquatic animal by the Union Government. This decision has been taken in the first meeting of National Ganga River Basin Authority chaired by PM in wake of conserving the ridiculously dwindling population of Ganges Dolphins in the past few years.
These dolphins have viewed by the conservationist as the bioindicators of the pollution levels in Ganges. According to them the step taken would help protecting these lovable creatures.
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nivedita1234
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at 21:34 on October 9th, 2009
Great, hope environmentalist lobby will start pitching for Dolphin.
at 03:19 on October 29th, 2009
i had seen the documentary of river dolphins a year back on discovery channel, till them i never knew there existed a such a unique creature in the ganges. they had said that river dophins are blind. But with pollution level of ganges so high , i think just by declaring it as national aquatic aninal of India wont help!!