National Dolphin Day

Category : Important Days Published on: October 06 2023

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National Dolphin Day is celebrated every year on 5 October in India.
The announcement of celebrating National Dolphin Day was made by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest, Environment and Climate Change in March 2022.
Thus the second National Dolphin Day is being celebrated in the year 2023.
Dolphin was declared the national animal in the year 2009 by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The scientific name of dolphin is Platanista gangetica.
The Ganges dolphin is one of the five main species of dolphin found in the world's rivers.
The dolphin is listed as 'endangered' in the IUCN Red List.

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