Gujarat Govt To Develop Whale Shark Tourism
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 30
No. 7,
July 2010
“Australia has developed a kind of system in which they use airplanes and expert spotters to identify places where the whale shark are present at that stage in the sea which is very effective," Principal chief conservator of forests of Gujarat Pradeep Khanna said.
A scheduled I animal under the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972, there are about 500 whale sharks in Indian waters and most of them are spotted largely on the coast of Gujarat.
A team of state forest department, headed by Mr. Khanna along with representative of NGO, Wildlife Trust of India, had gone to Australia recently to study satellite tagging of whale shark and also to learn about tourism concerning the mammal to help kick-start a similar process at home. Read the full report here.
Source: The Hindu, Ahmedabad
