Resources & Library
Annual and progress reports from the Gharial Ecology Project, since the first field season in 2008–09.
Gharial acoustic signaling: Novel underwater pops are temporally based, context-dependent, seasonally stable, male-specific, and individually distinctive
Journal of Anatomy · 2025
Gharial acoustic and chemo-signalling behaviours
Talks at the IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group meeting · 2024
Using functional traits to identify conservation priorities for the world’s crocodylians
Functional Ecology 37: 112–124 · 2023
Sand addition promotes gharial nesting in a regulated river-reservoir habitat
Ecological Solutions and Evidence 2: e12068 · 2021
Gharial nesting in a reservoir is limited by reduced river flow and by increased bank vegetation
Scientific Reports · 2021
Gharials (Gavialis gangeticus) in Bardiya National Park, Nepal: Population, habitat and threats
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems · 2021
Gavialis gangeticus — IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
IUCN Red List assessment · e.T8966A149227430 · 2019
Gharial — IUCN Green Status of Species assessment
How far the gharial is from full ecological recovery, and what conservation has achieved so far
Gharial and mugger in upstream tributaries of the Chambal River, north India
Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter 36(4) · 2017
Doing the needful in Nepal: priorities for gharial conservation
Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter 36(2) · 2017
Chambal Gharial Ecology Project — 2016 update
Pp. 136–148 in Crocodiles. Proceedings of the 24th Working Meeting of the IUCN-SSC Crocodile Specialist Group · 2016
India: gharial conservation overview
Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter 35(1): 10–14 · 2016
Gharial Gavialis gangeticus
In Crocodiles: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan, 3rd edn (eds Manolis, S. C. & Stevenson, C.) · IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group · 2010
Application of telemetry techniques in crocodilian research: gharial spatial ecology in the Chambal River, north India
Pp. 161–171 in Telemetry in Wildlife Science, ENVIS Bulletin 13(1). Wildlife Institute of India · 2010
Spatial ecology of Gavialis gangeticus in the Chambal River, India
Crocodile Specialist Group working meeting proceedings
Gharial field techniques: GPS radios & game cameras
Technical note, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust
A training manual for the boatmen of the National Chambal Sanctuary — the river, its ravines and wildlife, and their role as its stewards.
Films
From Science to Survival: Gharial Conservation in Action
Gharial Ecology Project · narrated by Jailabdeen A.
On the Brink S2: Gharial
The Habitats Trust · 70th National Film Award
Conservation of gharials in India
Gharial Ecology Project · 3½ min
In the press
Basking on the Brink
Earth Touch News · 2018
After 50 yrs of rescue effort, gharials still face extinction
The Times of India (Sandeep Rai) · August 2025
‘On the Brink – Gharial’: Best Non-Feature Film promoting social and environmental values
70th National Film Awards · 2024
Pankaj Kumar receives the Fateh Singh Rathore Memorial Conservation Award
Tiger Watch, Ranthambhore · March 2023