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Ganges River Dolphin Declared Indian National Aquatic Animal
Source: Thaindian News
Environmentalists cheer dolphin as national aquatic animal
Patna, Oct 6 (IANS) Environmentalists in Bihar are overjoyed at the dolphin being declared a national aquatic animal and say the move would not only save the freshwater species from extinction but an increase in their numbers would also indicate a cleaner Ganga river.
“It will boost the conservation of dolphins in India,” said R.K. Sinha, a well-known expert on Gangetic dolphins.
According to him, dolphins are the lifeline of river Ganga. “If the dolphin numbers increase in the river, it will be a positive sign for a clean Ganges and if the numbers decrease, it is a negative sign of increasing pollution,” Sinha told IANS.
The dolphins in the Ganga are among the four freshwater dolphin species in the world. The other three are found in the river Yangtze in China, in the Indus in Pakistan and in the Amazon in South America....
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Nearly extinct black-footed ferret returns to Canada
Source: Scientific American - Written by by John Platt
For the first time in more than 70 years, black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) are now living wild on Canadian soil. Last Friday, the Toronto Zoo released 34 black-footed ferrets into the prairies of Grasslands National Park in southern Saskatchewan near the U.S. border.
The endangered species once "probably the rarest mammals on Earth," according to the Black-Footed Ferret Recovery Program, disappeared from Canada in 1937, and was thought to have gone completely extinct around 1974.
About half of this batch of released ferrets were born in the Toronto Zoo's ferret breeding program, and then temporarily transferred to a similar facility in the U.S., where they had a chance to practice their hunting and survival skills in a ....
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