‘Sand mining in Ganga could be killing rare turtles’

DEHRADUN: Turtle species introduced in the Ganga 10 years ago to clean the river waters are now almost entirely gone, scientists say. The freshwater turtle species, Chitra Indica and Nilsonia Gangeticuf, are scavengers that were released into the river to clean out carcasses and waste, but are now nowhere to be seen, a team of scientists from the Zoological Survey of...