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    After demands were made for a project to save dolphins in India, Project Dolphin was launched as an Indian government initiative to conserve both riverine and oceanic dolphin species in 2021. It was announced on 15 August 2020 during the 74th independence day celebrations by then Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.
    The ministry said it is a 10-year-long project led by Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar. The Gangetic river dolphin is a species of freshwater dolphins primarily found in the Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers and their tributaries in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
    The Project Dolphin was launched in 2020, however, we, at the Wildlife Institute of India have been working on Development of Conservation Action Plan for the Ganges river dolphins through Our Species Conservation Programs, funded by the CAMPA, since 2016. Do we do these?
    There is an expectation that at the meeting a programme called โ€œProject Dolphinโ€, along the lines of โ€œProject Tigerโ€ will be cleared to enhance the population of these dolphins. The status of Gangetic dolphins in India
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