{"id":16351,"date":"2023-10-27T10:44:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T05:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16351"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:11:25","slug":"river-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/river-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Declaration for River Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Global Declaration for River Dolphins<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This declaration is\u00a0designed to guide 14 nations where river dolphins inhabit,\u00a0with a\u00a0focus on responsible freshwater dolphin conservation.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to\u00a0halt the decline of\u00a0all river dolphin species and\u00a0increase the\u00a0most\u00a0vulnerable populations.<\/li>\n<li>The declaration will\u00a0escalate\u00a0collaborative endeavours to safeguard the surviving river dolphin species.<\/li>\n<li>Countries that adopted the declaration\u00a0include\u00a0Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, and Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li>The countries involved\u00a0agreed to improve water quality in the dolphins&#8217; habitat,\u00a0create protected areas,\u00a0tackle overfishing, and\u00a0involve Indigenous communities in the affected regions in protecting the animals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about River Dolphins<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>River Dolphins are\u00a0any of six species\u00a0of small, usually\u00a0freshwater aquatic mammals\u00a0that are\u00a0related to whales (order Cetacea).<\/li>\n<li>A seventh river dolphin species, the\u00a0Chinese river dolphin, or baiji,\u00a0was declared extinct in 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution: These dolphins are found in\u00a0rivers of south-central Asia, China, and South America and in the\u00a0coastal waters of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.<\/li>\n<li>Common Features:\u00a0They have\u00a0slender beaks lined\u00a0with lots of teeth, small eyes, flexible necks and bodies, pronounced\u00a0forehead melons,\u00a0large flippers, and\u00a0small dorsal fins.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0six surviving species of river dolphins\u00a0are the\u00a0Amazon, Indus, Ganges, Irrawaddy, Tucuxi, and Yangtze finless porpoise.<\/li>\n<li>All six species\u00a0of river dolphins\u00a0are classified as Endangered or Critically Endangered\u00a0on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0largest is the Amazon River dolphin (Inia geoffrensis).<\/li>\n<li>They are\u00a0important indicators of the health of rivers. Where freshwater dolphin populations are thriving, it is likely that the overall river systems are flourishing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Which states has the population of Ganges river dolphins in India?<\/h3>\n<p>Ganges river dolphins prefer deep waters, in and around the confluence of rivers. The distribution range of the Ganges river dolphins in India covers seven states namely, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwf.panda.org\/wwf_news\/press_releases\/?9947441\/Historic-declaration-offers-hope-for-worlds-endangered-river-dolphins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Historic declaration offers hope for world\u2019s endangered river dolphins<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Declaration for River Dolphins aims to halt the decline of all river dolphin species and increase the most vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}