The rare and ancient gharial, with its distinctive long snout, faces critical endangerment in northern India's rivers. Unlike crocodiles, gharials are gentle giants crucial for river ecosystem health.

The Fort Worth Zoo announced the "groundbreaking births" Thursday of "a historic conservation success" -- the hatching of four critically endangered gharial crocodiles. Of the 35 gharial crocodiles ...

This critically endangered animal, known for its long, thin snout with a bulbous growth at the end, split off from other crocodilian species 40 million years ago. When you purchase through links on ...

Slender-snouted gharials are among the most distinctive of the world’s crocodilians, and thus the most in need of conservation action, a new study suggests. The study authors scored all 28 existing ...

Chitwan, May 29 -- Bed Bahadur Khadka, a passionate conservationist who dedicated nearly two decades of his life to protecting the critically endangered gharial crocodile, passed away on Monday after ...

Since the creation of Chitwan National Park, some Indigenous Bote people who have lost access to their ancestral lands and livelihoods have been employed by the park as gharial keepers to help ...

A new assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has shown that the gharial, a rare crocodile-like reptile, is still highly dependent on conservation efforts to survive in ...

BHUBANESWAR : Gharial conservation in Odisha has taken another leap forward with birth of 29 more crocodile babies in the freshwaters of Mahanadi river this year, making it the fifth consecutive ...