A new assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has shown that the gharial, a rare crocodile-like reptile, is still highly dependent on conservation efforts to survive in ...

The Gandak river has emerged as a prominent sanctuary for gharials in India, now housing more than 1,000 of these unique fish ...

Since the creation of Chitwan National Park, some Indigenous Bote people who have lost access to their ancestral lands and livelihoods have been employed by the park as gharial keepers to help ...

“The Zoo is thrilled to announce this monumental conservation success - the hatchings of four critically endangered gharial crocodiles,” the zoo said in a statement on Facebook. All of the gharials at ...

The Fort Worth Zoo announced the "groundbreaking births" Thursday of "a historic conservation success" -- the hatching of four critically endangered gharial crocodiles. Of the 35 gharial crocodiles ...

Marcos Avalos, ectotherm zookeeper, holds one of the four newly arrived gharial hatchlings outside of the Museum of Living Art at the Fort Worth Zoo on Thursday. Desiree Rios / Special Contributor ...

Twenty-eight gharial hatchlings have been spotted in a tributary of Nepal’s Karnali River, the first sign of successful nesting in this waterway in at least 16 years. The discovery by villagers living ...

The Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), whose range extended through the Indian subcontinent is now extinct in Burma and Pakistan, close to extinction in Bangladesh, and is limited to few large rivers in ...