244 turtle hatchlings went back into the Ganga at Kasganj
WWF-India, the district Ganga committee, and the forest department released brown roofed turtles and Indian tent turtles at Lahara Ghat on November 4. The eggs had been collected from the river in Kasganj.
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Two hundred and forty freshwater turtle hatchlings were released into the Ganga at Lahara Ghat in Kasganj on November 4. Dynamite News reported the release on November 5, 2026. The turtles were two species, the brown roofed turtle, Pangshura smithii, and the Indian tent turtle, Pangshura tentoria. WWF-India organized the afternoon with the District Ganga Committee and the forest department. The date marked the anniversary of the Ganga being declared India's national river. The paper did not state which anniversary year it was.
The eggs had been collected from the Ganga in Kasganj district. After hatching, the young were raised under a conservation protocol and then returned to the river. Dynamite News named chief development officer Virendra Kumar, divisional forest officer Sanjeev Kumar, higher-education nodal officer S. K. Rawat, and WWF-India senior project officer Himanshu Sharma among the people present, along with a range officer and local farmers. The news is these 244 hatchlings. It is not a population estimate for turtles in the Ganga.
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On November 4, 2026, people let 244 baby turtles into the Ganga River at Lahara Ghat in Kasganj, India. Dynamite News reported it the next day. The babies were two kinds of river turtle, the brown roofed turtle and the Indian tent turtle. Their eggs had been collected from the Ganga in Kasganj district and the hatchlings were raised until they were ready to go back. WWF-India organized the release with the district Ganga committee and the forest department. The day marked the anniversary of the Ganga being named India's national river. Chief development officer Virendra Kumar and forest officer Sanjeev Kumar were there. The news is these 244 turtles, not every turtle in the river.
- Why collect turtle eggs from a river and put the babies back later?
- What is one way a river turtle helps the water it lives in?
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