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IUCN Species of the Day: South Asian River Dolphin

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  Photo credit: Sandra Bose   The South Asian River Dolphin, Platanista gangetica, is listed as ‘ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. An inhabitant of the Indus, Ganges, Meghna Brahmaputra, and Karnaphuli river systems of the Asian Continue Reading

IUCN Species of the Day: European Eel

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  Photo credit: Biopix.dk: N Sloth   The European Eel, Anguilla anguilla, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.  It spends most of its life in European rivers which flow into the Atlantic, Mediterranean Continue Reading