With support from the National River Conservation Directorate (earlier the Ganga Project Directorate under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India), Patna University undertook intensive studies from 2001 to 2007 in a 500-km stretch of the Ganges in the state of Bihar, where over 50 % of the total population of the Ganges River dolphin in India (currently over 3,000) survive (Sinha et al. From the results of surveys conducted in 1982–1985, Singh and Sharma ( 1985) estimated that 45 dolphins were present in approximately 305 km segment of the River Chambal between Batesura and the confluence of the Yamuna River. 2000) with support of Biodiversity Support Program (BSP), a consortium of World Wildlife Fund, the Nature Conservancy, and the World Resources Institute. Continuous surveys were conducted in the Ganges River in a stretch of over 1900 km from Haridwar, at the foothills of the Himalayas, to Farakka near the India–Bangladesh border in 1996–1998 (Sinha 1999 Sinha et al. During 1990–1994, other researchers have conducted dolphin surveys at several sections of the Ganges River and its tributaries (Behera 1995 Smith et al. Our research team at Patna University (Patna) has conducted several surveys in discrete segments of the Ganges River from 1991 to 1996, under the Dolphin Conservation Project sponsored by the Ganga Project Directorate, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India (Sinha 1996, 1997 Sinha et al. Overall, information on ecology and conservation status of river dolphins in India is spatially and temporally patchy. Nevertheless, these reports were not based on continuous or systematic surveys, and the population status was most likely a rough estimate. Approximately 100 years later, however, a few papers reported some details on the population status of the Ganges dolphin as of the 1980s (Jones 1982 Mohan 1989). Anderson ( 1879) provided the first description of the distribution range, morphology, and anatomy of the dolphin, although he did not discuss the dolphin’s population status or ecology. There is no credible estimate of the range-wide numbers, but the subspecies was listed as “endangered” on the 1996 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, due to a reduction in its historical distribution range and projected declines in population size due to increasing threats (IUCN 1996).Īlthough the Ganges dolphin is mentioned in mythological and historical literature, its occurrence in the Hooghly River, the tidal zone of the Ganges, was first documented in 1801 by William Roxburgh, Superintendent of the Botanical Garden, Calcutta (Roxburgh 1801). In addition, eight villagers from the original Animal Crossing games return for the first time in nearly 20 years.Ganges River dolphins, commonly known as susu, Platanista gangetica gangetica, are distributed throughout the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna and Karnaphuli–Sangu river systems of Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and potentially Bhutan (Mohan et al.
All villagers present in New Leaf and most from Welcome amiibo make a return, while 16 new villagers are added: Audie ( peppy wolf), Cyd ( cranky elephant), Dom ( jock sheep), Judy ( snooty cub), Megan ( normal bear), Raymond ( smug cat), Reneigh ( sisterly horse), Sherb ( lazy goat), Sasha ( lazy rabbit), Ione ( normal squirrel), Tiansheng ( jock monkey), Shino ( peppy deer), Marlo ( cranky hamster), Petri ( snooty mouse), Cephalobot ( smug octopus) and Quinn ( sisterly eagle). There are 413 villagers in New Horizons, excluding special characters. Please help us expand this article by editing it. This page is currently under construction.