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World Crocodile Day - June 17
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- India is home to three crocodilian species
- The mugger or marsh crocodile
- The estuarine or saltwater crocodile
- The gharial
- The mugger is mainly a freshwater species, and found in lakes, rivers and marshes.
- It is found throughout the Indian subcontinent.
- The estuarine crocodile is found in Odisha’s Bhitarkanika National Park, the Sundarbans in West Bengal and the Andamans and Nicobar Islands.
- The gharial is found mostly in Himalayan rivers.
- Gharials are enlisted as critically endangered species.
- National Chambal Sanctuary--also called the National Chambal Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary--is a protected area in northern India.
- It is located on the Chambal River near the tripoint of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
- The Crocodile Conservation Project was launched in 1975 in different States.
- The Gharial and Saltwater crocodile conservation programme was first implemented in Odisha in early 1975 and subsequently the Mugger conservation programme was initiated.
- CrocBITE is an online database of crocodile attacks reported on humans.
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