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- Ravindra Kumar Sinha is a Padma Shri awarded Indian biologist and environmentalist. Currently, he is Vice-Chancellor of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University and formerly of Nalanda Open University. Previously he was the Head of the Department of Zoology at Patna University, and is a pioneer researcher and wildlife conservationist, famous for his efforts for the conservation of Gangetic Dolphins, he is popularly known as the "Dolphin Man of India". His scientific research and conservation campaign for the last 4 decades have been crucial to the efforts of saving the South Asian river dolphin from extinction. In response to the awareness of the urgency of protecting the Ganga River dolphin raised by Sinha, the Government of India designated this Dolphin as the National Aquatic Animal of India in 2009. (en)
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- Dolphin Man of India (en)
- Dolphin Sinha (en)
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- Golden Jubilee Award of National Academy of Sciences, India (en)
- Farsh Se Arsh Tak by Outlook Magazine (en)
- Padma Shri by the President of India (en)
- Order of the Golden Ark by His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands (en)
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- Keotar village, Jehanabad dist. Bihar, India (en)
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- Ravindra Kumar Sinha receiving Padmashri from President Pranab Mukherjee (en)
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- Conservation of Gangetic Dolphins (en)
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- Ravindra Kumar Sinha (en)
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- Vice Chancellor of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Professor, Researcher and Wildlife Conservationist (en)
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- Dolphin Man of India (en)
- Dolphin Sinha (en)
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- Ravindra Kumar Sinha is a Padma Shri awarded Indian biologist and environmentalist. Currently, he is Vice-Chancellor of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University and formerly of Nalanda Open University. Previously he was the Head of the Department of Zoology at Patna University, and is a pioneer researcher and wildlife conservationist, famous for his efforts for the conservation of Gangetic Dolphins, he is popularly known as the "Dolphin Man of India". (en)
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- Ravindra Kumar Sinha (biologist) (en)
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