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River dolphin count completed Jan 29 2008
BBC Wildlife magazine reports that the recent completion of a survey of pink (Inia geoffrensis and Inia boliviensis) and grey (Sotalia fluviatilis) river dolphins in South America’s Orinoco and Amazon Basins was “a triumph for freshwater dolphin conservation”.
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Study counts rare river dolphins Aug 20 2007
A group of Bolivian, Colombian, and Argentine scientists are taking part in a year-long census of freshwater dolphins in the Amazon and Orinoco river basin. The river dolphins of South America are among the most endangered mammal species on earth.
Read the Christian Science Monitor’s in-depth reporting on this study of the rare powder-pink dolphins, entitled ‘A quest to save South America’s freshwater dolphins’.
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