The Fort Worth Zoo welcomed two gharial crocodile hatchlings, a critically endangered reptile. The zoo, located in Texas, is ...
If stronger action is not taken now, we could lose these species within our lifetime—a tragedy not just for biodiversity but for the planet as a whole.
But recent surveys have shown that gharial numbers have once again crashed, this time to critically endangered status. Gharials eat only fish and require a special­ized habitat of swiftly flowing ...
No fewer than 131 gharials, the critically endangered long-snouted crocodile native to the Northern Indian sub-continent, were recently re-introduced to the river Ganges at the Hastinapur Wildlife ...
Many species that have roamed the Earth for millennia are now critically endangered due to habitat destruction, climate ...
A fluctuation of a mere 1.5ºC is enough to seal the fate of a gharial embryo as a male or female The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore ...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists Gharials as critically endangered, with their numbers declining by up to 98% since the mid-1900s. The IUCN estimate there to be only ...
Bhopal: In a significant step toward wildlife conservation, 21 gharials were released back into their natural habitat in the Chambal river in Morena on Thursday. The release was led by chief ...
But increased habitat destruction, pollution and poaching is threatening the river's freshwater species. Find out more about protecting the Chambal and the gharial, one of the world's most endanagered ...
The main objective of the Chambal Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary is to conserve the endangered gharial, red-crowned roof turtle and the endangered Gangetic dolphin. Chief Minister Yadav said that this ...