Amazon’s pink dolphins under threat

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According to Reuters, the Amazon river dolphin known as pink dolphin located in Brazil, is under threat since fishermen are hunting and killing them illegally by making them bait for a catfish called piracatinga, which gathers fish that demand high prices in the city.

As the legal ban upon fishing the piracatinga ended last month, environmentalists and researchers are prompting calls for its renewal, so as to stop pink dolphins’s being vulnerable.

Speaking of urgent calls, the biologist Vera da...

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