Migratory freshwater fish have declined by 81 per cent worldwide since the 1970s, and a commentary from India’s Himalayan headwaters argues that dams and village rules there will decide whether the survivors still have a river to travel.
Convention on Migratory Species
India’s Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change told delegates from more than 100 countries in Jaipur that India’s Ramsar-listed wetlands have grown from 24 to 101 in a decade.