{"id":2390,"date":"2002-09-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/09\/16\/2002-09-16-dolphins-win-survival-battle-in-ganges\/"},"modified":"2002-09-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-16T12:00:00","slug":"2002-09-16-dolphins-win-survival-battle-in-ganges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/09\/16\/2002-09-16-dolphins-win-survival-battle-in-ganges\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins Win Survival Battle in Ganges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.sify.com\/cgi-bin\/sifynews\/news\/content\/news_fullstory_v2.jsp?article_oid=11896603&#038;page_no=1\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>PATNA, INDIA, September 4, 2002: Endangered river dolphins are winning a battle for survival in the only sanctuary of its kind in India along a protected stretch of the Ganges river, wildlife officials say. In the last ten years, dolphin numbers have risen to about 100 from 34 in the 60-kilometer-long Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary in Bihar, said D. N. Chowdhary, a senior professor at Bihar&#8217;s Bhagalpur University. &#8220;This sanctuary has at last proved a safe stretch for river dolphins who are fast becoming extinct in other river systems of the world,&#8221; Chowdhary said. Of the 40 species of dolphins worldwide, only four are found in fresh water &#8212; in China&#8217;s Yangtze River, the Amazon river system of South America and the Indus-Ganges river system of South Asia, Chowdhary said. &#8220;The Ganges, Brahmaputra and Indus rivers now account for the majority of the river dolphins. That is why this project is very important,&#8221; he said. State officials are hoping the dolphin sanctuary, which lies 300 kilometers southeast of Patna, would become a tourist attraction and give locals one more reason to protect the animals.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE PATNA, INDIA, September 4, 2002: Endangered river dolphins are winning a battle for survival in the only,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}