Thriving Oceans » Uncategorized http://thrivingoceans.org Let's get ocean responsible Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:24:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Threatened Irrawaddy Dolphins Discovered http://thrivingoceans.org/index.php/2009/04/01/threatened-irrawaddy-dolphins-discovered/ http://thrivingoceans.org/index.php/2009/04/01/threatened-irrawaddy-dolphins-discovered/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:18:02 +0000 Scott A. http://thrivingoceans.org/?p=94

Not much commentary here, but it is always exciting when a population of an endangered/threated species is discovered hiding out in the waters of our planet…

“A huge population of rare dolphins threatened by climate change and fishing nets has been discovered in South Asia. Researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society estimate that nearly 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins, marine mammals that are related to orcas or killer whales, were found living in freshwater regions of Bangladesh’s Sundarbans mangrove forest and adjacent waters of the Bay of Bengal. ”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090401/sc_livescience/6000raredolphinsfoundinsouthasia

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