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Socio-economic factors threatening the survival of Ganges River Dolphin Platanista gangetica gangetica in the upper Ganges River, India

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Bashir, Tawqir, Khan, Afifullah, Behera, Sandeep Kumar (2010): Socio-economic factors threatening the survival of Ganges River Dolphin Platanista gangetica gangetica in the upper Ganges River, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2 (8): 1087-1091, DOI: 10.11609/JoTT.o2333.1087-91, URL: http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/520

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