yunhap news-Police arrested local men who killed an endangered species, the Ganges River Dolphin, for no reason.
According to India Today on the 9th, a video of a dolphin dying on a stick and ax struck by 7 young men on the Sharda Canal in Uttarpuradesi on the 31st of last month was spread on social media.
They laughed and beat the dolphins. One jokingly said, “You’re attacking for no reason,” and the other said, “Hit it now, beat it now.”
Afterwards, officials from the forest department found the carcasses of dolphins, but the villagers wondered how the dolphins died.
The police confirmed the identities of three men through a video spread on SNS, arrested on the 7th of this month, and are confirming the rest of the participants.
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These are village residents aged 19-20 and were punished for violating the Wildlife Protection Act.
What they killed was the Ganges River dolphin, a freshwater dolphin with a long snout.
Freshwater dolphins inhabit the Ganges River in India, the Indus River in Pakistan, the Yangtze River in China, and the Amazon River in South America, and were designated as an endangered species by the World Conservation Federation (IUCN) in 1997.
The number of dolphins in the Ganges River is estimated to be between 1200 and 1800.
A local Forest Service official said, “The Ganges River dolphins are mainly active in deep waters, but I don’t know how they got to the Sharda Canal.”
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