e Asia’s first Dolphin Research Centre will be set up in Patna. Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi told AIR that the state government would provide land near the river Ganga.
Mr. Modi said the centre will be under Patna University. Our correspondent reports that the population of Dolphin in the country is around 2500 out of which Bihar accounts the 60 percent of them.
Fresh water dolphins are found only in three areas across the globe-the Ganga river system, the Indus and its tributaries and the Amazon.
The Ganga Dolphin is distinguished by the other species by its long snout and is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. |
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