There’s the South Asian river dolphin (Platanista genus) and the Amazon river dolphin (Inia ... opening the freshwater habitat to the ancestors of extant pink river dolphins.

Every spring the Amazon dolphins get to leave the confines of their river channel for a taste of their former habitat. At the Mamirauá Reserve in western Brazil, where Tony Martin of the ...

The region around the lake is a key habitat for mammals and other aquatic ... the Mamiraua environmental institute, said. The Amazon river dolphins — some pink in color — are a unique ...

This is especially critical in the case of the Irrawaddy dolphin subpopulation in the Mekong River. The initiative will support activities to prevent construction of the Sambor and Stung Treng dams in ...

The Amazon river dolphin is one of two freshwater dolphin species living in the Amazon and Orinoco basins. Only this species has evolved to explore the seasonally flooded forest habitat. “River ...

Amazon river dolphins are showing alarming levels of contamination mainly because of illegal panning for gold, conservationists say. Researchers measured contamination levels in 46 of these large ...