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Technically this is from July, but I thought it was interesting and relevant enough to post in this thread. I have a friend who is a PhD student at the University of Arizona and his speciality is Ganges river dolphins in Nepal. I actually edited the english for a paper he wrote.

Freshwater dolphins make comeback in Nepal

The blind aquatic mammals swim upstream to breed during the monsoon

It is the annual monsoon season, and despite the rains this would be the time of year when tourists flocked to the tributaries of the Karnali River in Nepal for dolphin watching.

When the rivers are in spate is when the endangered Gangetic Freshwater Dolphin swim upstream from India to the mighty Karnali, Nepal’s longest river, to find mates on the still backwaters of the oxbow lakes.

Freshwater dolphins make comeback in Nepal

 
I hope I am not in violation of forum rules by sharing this petition, but I felt that it was relevant to the topic of this thread and awareness for this matter needed to get out into the open.

"Shut down oil leasing in beluga and sea otter habitat

Belugas and northern sea otters both count on critical habitat in Alaska’s Cook Inlet for survival – and both species are in decline.

That’s why a proposal to bring more oil and gas drilling to new areas in Cook Inlet is such a dire threat. Oil spills, toxic pollution, noise and other dangers threaten to harm and even kill these animals – and the very survival of these populations is in jeopardy.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is taking your comments now. Tell them to shut down more oil and gas development in this sensitive and critical habitat! We can’t let these marine species disappear for the sake of more oil profits – raise your voice now to protect belugas, sea otters and more!"

Shut down oil leasing in beluga and sea otter habitat
 
Seismic Blasting Ocean for Oil, Which Could Have Wiped Out Endangered Whale, Halted in Atlantic

No more seismic blasting will be carried out in the Atlantic Ocean this year, in a move that has been wholeheartedly welcomed by environmental campaigners due to the harm the offshore oil searching practice is know to inflict on marine animals near and far, amongst them the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.

Seismic blasting ocean for oil, which could have wiped out endangered whale, halted in Atlantic
 
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