Hydropower is a rapidly developing and globally important source of renewable electricity.
Globally, over 60% of rivers longer than 500 km are already fragmented and thousands of …

The common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is a global marine mammal species for
which some populations, due to their coastal accessibility, have been monitored diligently by …

Discarded fishing nets, a major source of marine litter, significantly threaten the marine
environment and contribute to plastic pollution due to the synthetic polymers they contain …

The extinction risk of sharks, rays and chimaeras is higher than that for most other
vertebrates due to low intrinsic population growth rates of many species and the fishing …

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a large group of chemicals reported in
global environment and are responsible for various adverse impacts on humans and …

River systems originating from the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) are dominated by runoff from
snow and glacier melt and summer monsoonal rainfall. These water resources are highly …

Abstract South Asian river dolphins (Platanista gangetica) are among the most endangered
of the world's cetaceans. The two subspecies in the family Platanistidae, Indus, and Ganges …

Ecological baselines—reference states of species' distributions and abundances—are key
to the scientific arguments underpinning many conservation and management interventions …

Bycatch mortality from entanglement in fishing nets is a major threat to the conservation of
endangered cetacean species, including South Asian river dolphins Platanista. Bycatch …

River dolphins are strongly affected by the construction of hydroelectric dams. Potential
isolation in subpopulations above and below such dams and the resulting low genetic …