Principal Investigator: Gopal Khanal
Funding year: 2022
Main objectives:
- To understand the effects of trans-boundary barrages on river habitats for Ganges river dolphins along the Nepal-India border, in the Karnali-Ghaghara, Narayani-Gandak, and Sapta
Koshi/Kosi river systems.
- To assess responses of Ganges river dolphins to alterations in river discharge dynamics and geomorphological changes upstream and downstream of these barrages in Nepal and India.
- To identify similarities and differences in the operations of the three barrages that allow for differential population persistence and river dolphin movement through barrages.
- To increase awareness of barrage authorities about adaptive and ecologically oriented management of trans-boundary barrages.
Main outcomes:
To follow.
Reports/Papers:
To follow.