Myanmar is endowed with Irrawaddy dolphins which are now very rare species, numbering less than a hundred in toto. Recently, a mother dolphin and its baby were heard to be stranded in Bilin Township in Mon State. Hearing the news that the two dolphins are in trouble, Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) arrived at the scene to rescue them. People from BANCA found the two dolphins stranded at Kyunthaya, Zokkali Village Tract in Bilin Township at 1630 hours on 5th October while they were carrying out their routine activities in Moktama (Martaban) Gulf.
The mother dolphin measures five and a half feet in length while the baby dolphin is two and a half feet long. They picked up the Irrawaddy dolphins and took them in a boat to send to a safe place where the water is deep enough. BANCA took only 20 minutes to complete the whole process of moving them to a safer place.
The Irrawaddy dolphins inhabit east of Martaban Gulf i.e. Mon State and west of Martaban Gulf i.e. Bago and Yangon Regions. The sea dwelling dolphins belong to the mammal. As they are now rare species, it is important to conserve them properly, warned BANCA.
