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India's Mangroves Store More Carbon Than Rainforests, And Coastal Deforestation Is Erasing Them Fast

The numbers that should change how you think about mangrovesA single hectare of mangrove forest stores up to 1,000 tonnes of carbon in its soil, roughly four to five times more than a comparable patch of tropical rainforest. The reason is structural. Mangroves grow at the edge of land and…

Times Life

Chilika Lake's Hidden Biodiversity: The Aquatic Species Living in India's Largest Coastal Lagoon

A Lake That Is Not Quite a LakeChilika is a brackish water lagoon, not a freshwater lake, and that distinction is the biological engine behind everything that lives in it. Spread across roughly 1,100 square kilometres along the Odisha coast, it sits at the meeting point of the Mahanadi river…

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India's Fishing Communities and Dolphins: A Coastal Coexistence Passed Down Through Generations

The Dolphins That Follow the NetsIn Chilika Lake, Odisha's vast brackish lagoon, Irrawaddy dolphins and fishermen have developed a working rhythm that marine biologists have studied for decades. The dolphins herd fish toward the shore and toward the nets. The fishermen, reading the dolphins' movement, cast at the right moment.…

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Inside the Sundarbans: Why India's Tiger Mangrove Delta Is Beautiful and Deeply Unsettling

You arrive expecting wilderness. You find something watching you.The boat leaves Godkhali jetty before sunrise, and within twenty minutes the land you knew is gone. Not behind you, erased. The Sundarbans swallows its own edges. The waterways here do not behave like rivers; they branch and double back and end…

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Cambodian Leader Orders Mekong Safe Zones to Save Rare Dolphins

Cambodian premier Hun Sen on Monday ordered the creation of conservation zones on the Mekong river to protect critically endangered dolphins, after three were killed by fishing nets and lines last month. The Irrawaddy dolphins, known for their bulging foreheads and short beaks, once swam through much of the mighty…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Deaths of 3 endangered Cambodian dolphins raise alarm

Conservationists in Cambodia are alarmed at the deaths of three endangered freshwater Irrawaddy dolphins, whose population has seriously declined in recent years

The Independent UK

Bridge project 'threatens rare dolphins'

The cabinet's recent decision to approve the construction of a 4.48-billion-baht bridge across the Songkhla Lake is causing alarm among environmental activists and authorities alike, with many questioning if the project will ultimately spell the demise of the last pod of 14 Irrawaddy dolphins who call the lake home.

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Lake bridge needs review

The cabinet last week approved 6.6 billion baht for construction of two bridges in southern region -- one of which raises fears about its impact on rare and endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Songkhla Lake.

Bangkok Post

Rescued Irrawaddy dolphin calf dies despite weeks of care

An Irrawaddy dolphin calf who was rescued and nursed day and night for weeks by veterinarians and volunteers after his rescue from a tidal pool on Thailand’s shore has died

The Independent UK

Irrawaddy dolphin calf nursed back to health after almost drowning in Thailand

The male calf has been kept alive after being hand-fed milk around the clock in a seawater pool at Thailand's Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Center at Rayong on the Gulf of Thailand.

ABC News

Saving Songkhla's last dolphin pod

The last pod of 14 Irrawaddy dolphins in Songkhla Lake in southern Thailand could become extinct within eight years if a conservation plan is not implemented immediately, says the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources.

Bangkok Post

Low dolphin population 'concerning'

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa has expressed concerns over the low population of Irrawaddy dolphins in Thailand and urged all parties to step up efforts to help protect the critically endangered species.

Bangkok Post

Last freshwater dolphin in northeastern Cambodia dies

Wildlife officials say the last surviving freshwater Irrawaddy dolphin on a stretch of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia has died, apparently after getting tangled in a fishing net

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