India’s rivers are 6,000 dolphin houses

Ganges, the longest and most holy river in India, are home to thousands of dolphins. However, their survival is in danger.

But these are not like those found in the oceans. They splash from water in magnificent arcs; swim in a surface or steep position at long intervals. Instead, they swim to the side, spend most of their time, and almost completely blind.

These are the Genganizat Dolphins, Tea Dolphins and National Water Animals of India – are mainly found in the northern part of the country in the Ganges-Brahmaputra tea system.

A new study finds India’s rivers 6,327 tea dolphins, 6,324 blood and only three indus dolphins. The majority of the indus dolphins are found in Pakistan as a river flow through South Asia.

Both of these dolphins are classified as “endangered” of international nature (IUCN).

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Wild Nature conducted a survey of 58 rivers between 2021 and 2023 to produce the first comprehensive number of river dolphins.

The origin of the tea dolphins is as interesting as the creatures themselves. They often called “live fossils”, and millions of years ago developed from seafather.

When the sea once flooded in South Asia’s low-lying areas, these dolphins moved internally – and they stayed. Over time, they adapted to dark, shallow rivers, to develop signs that set them apart from the cousin living in the ocean.

Experts say that the new survey river is very important for the tracking of dolphin populations. At least 500 dolphins have been killed since 1980 – a large number of accidentally caught in fishing nets or intentionally killed – stressed the threat to the species.

The guard of Ravindra Kumar Sinha says that until the early 2000s, there were very little about tea dolphins.

In 2009, India’s national water animal was announced to increase the conservation of the Dolphin Dolphin. In 2020, the 2020 action plan and steps such as a special research center in 2024, have been helpful to revive their numbers since then.

However, the guards say it is still a long way to go.

Dolphins continue to be braconed for meat and Buducke to use as fishing, fishing bait. Other times, colliding with boats or caught fishing lines and dies.

Wild Nature Protection Guven’s Nachiket Kelkar’s shrine said that many fishermen often say many fishermen do not know the diversion of dolphins by fear of the legal problem.

According to Indian Wildlist Laws, random or targeted dolphin murders are treated as “hunting” and are serious penalties. As a result, many poor fishermen throw carcasses quietly to prevent fines.

Tea cruise tourism, selected in India in the last decade, threatened their habitats. There are dozens of cruise trips in both Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers.

“There is no doubt that concerns of cruises will seriously affect the noise-sensitive dolphins,” the guard Ravindra Kumar Sinha tell Guardian newspaper.

Mr Sinha believes that the growing ship of ship traffic can disappear, as China’s Yangtze River for Baiji Dolphins.

Tea dolphins are partially threats due to their own evolution. Approximately blind, echolocation rely on – the loud legume beans that bounced and echo objects – to walk Murky waters. Although this trait corresponds to their habitats, it is also sensitive to modern threats.

Their weak vision and slow swimming speed tend to collide with tea dolphins, boats and other obstacles. It is a slow reproductive cycle to add to their senses – among the six and 10 years old and women usually give up only one calf.

However, Mr. Sisha is hopeful for the future of tea dolphins in India. “Government initiatives played a major role in saving dolphins. It was done a lot, but it remains a lot to do more,” he says.