New Delhi:
The critically endangered Crimson-Topped Roofed Turtle has been reintroduced within the Ganga river as a part of the federal government’s flagship programme of cleansing the river and enhancing its biodiversity.
In a submit on X on Wednesday, Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Paatil stated, 20 such turtles had been launched in Uttar Pradesh’s Haiderpur Wetland On April 26.
माननीय प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi सर के नेतृत्व में चल रहे नमामि गंगे मिशन के तहत गंगा नदी में तीन दशक बाद रेड-क्राउन रूफ्ड टर्टल प्रजाति की वापसी संभव हो पाई है। यह वही प्रजाति है, जिसे उत्तर भारत की सबसे संकटग्रस्त प्रजातियों में गिना जाता था।
26 अप्रैल, 2025 को हैदरपुर… pic.twitter.com/HUc7lkuwr3
— C R Paatil (@CRPaatil) April 30, 2025
It’s a UNESCO Ramsar web site close to the Bijnor Ganga Barrage inside the Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary. This human-made wetland was shaped in 1984 with the Madhya Ganga Barrage development on the river’s floodplain.
Believed to be getting ready to extinction in north India, the Crimson-Topped Roofed Turtle has been reintroduced into the river by a rigorously deliberate scientific rehabilitation effort, the minister stated.
He described it as an vital milestone in restoring the ecology of the Ganga river.
Every turtle has been fitted with monitoring units in order that their motion patterns and progress in adapting to the atmosphere may be monitored.
Mr Patli credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his imaginative and prescient that took the form of the Namami Gange Mission for the turtle reintroduction initiative.
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