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Securing Gharial Populations and Riverscapes by Building a Conservation Roadmap
Under its Makara programme, the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT) is building a conservation roadmap for gharial conservation with an emphasis on Chambal, Son, Ghaghra, and Gandak Rivers in the Gangetic Plains and central India. To secure gharial populations and riverscapes, we are: a) Assessing the viability of extant gharial populations and habitats b) Developing effective population monitoring tools c) Evaluating current management practices d) Estimating ecological flow requirements in regulated rivers e) Building capacity of frontline protection personnel f) Building public engagement through communication, education, and outreach
Potential conservation benefits in saving biodiversity
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
The chart below represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.