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Evidence for the continued use of river dolphin oil for bait fishing and traditional medicine: implications for conservation

Populations of the Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) are endangered, with ~3500 individuals estimated worldwide. Threats to this precarious population is exacerbated by accidental entanglement and illegal hunting for oil, which is used in bait fisheries and traditional medicine....

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Autores principales: Kolipakam, Vishnupriya, Singh, Shweta, Ray, Shovana, Prasad, Leela, Roy, Kanad, Wakid, Abdul, Qureshi, Qamar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7452396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32885071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04690