A Colombian marine biologist is working to ... is to assess the overall health and population abundance of pink river dolphins in the Amazon River and work toward greater protections for their ...

These particular dolphins lacked the light pink hue found in some members ... The Orinoco River, which divides Venezuela and Colombia in the Amazon, has been polluted by mining for gold and ...

Venturing deep into the complex waterways of the Amazon, Colombian marine biologist Fernando Trujillo first set out to study the mysterious pink river dolphin in 1987, at the directive of the late ...

BOGOTA - Two pink river dolphins, a mother and her calf, were rescued from a Colombian river where the endangered mammals were trapped in shallow water, the navy said. A navy video released on ...

with demand coming from both the Colombian and Brazilian markets. The growth in demand for piracatinga had a knock-on effect on the pink river dolphin. “Fishermen tend to use the boto as bait ...

We have travelled 2 hours downriver from the Colombian town of Puerto Nariño ... thanks to the vultures perched on top. The pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) is symbolic of the biodiversity ...

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also known as the pink river dolphin or boto, can only survive in freshwater. It can be found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Despite that, pink dolphins ...

Pink river dolphins, also known as Amazon river dolphins ... and it is not different in the Amazon (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and Guyana)." They are often fished to ...

While pink dolphins do exist ... freshwater and are primarily found in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins in Bolivia Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela, according to the ...

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