Freshwater ecosystems and their species also absorb about 7% of the carbon humans add annually to the atmosphere. “Although small in area, these freshwater aquatic systems can affect regional ...

River Wonders at Mandai Wildlife Reserve  With all the hype around Rainforest Wild Asia, maybe it’s time to revisit some old ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

Many are also completely isolated from each other. Isolation and the complex web of ecological niches in freshwater ecosystems have led to the evolution of a disproportionate number of fish species ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction ... depend exclusively on freshwater ecosystems. They found that 24 per cent ...

Yet the lakes and river systems that supply them are often ... while freshwater fishing is almost exclusively a means of subsistence. “Most freshwater fish catches don’t enter the global ...

The first population estimation of riverine dolphins in India has revealed the presence of 6,327 dolphins in the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Indus river systems, according to a government report published ...