{"id":51839,"date":"2023-01-13T20:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T11:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jan\/13\/india-worlds-longest-river-cruise-endangered-ganges-dolphin-aoe"},"modified":"2023-01-13T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T11:20:03","slug":"worlds-longest-river-cruise-could-threaten-endangered-ganges-dolphin-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51839","title":{"rendered":"\u2018World\u2019s longest river cruise\u2019 could threaten endangered Ganges dolphin, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A luxury cruise has been hailed as the start of a new age of Indian tourism. But conservationists fear the impact of increased river traffic and pollution <\/p>\n<p>The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has officially launched the \u201cworld\u2019s longest river cruise\u201d from the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The luxury voyage will last 51 days, travelling 3,200km via Dhaka in Bangladesh to Dibrugarh in Assam, crossing 27 river systems.<\/p>\n<p>The three-deck MV Ganga Vilas, with 18 suites, is the latest venture in a trend for cruise tourism in India being promoted by the government. Modi hailed the cruise industry on the Ganges as a \u201clandmark moment\u201d, which will herald a new age of tourism in India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jan\/13\/india-worlds-longest-river-cruise-endangered-ganges-dolphin-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A luxury cruise has been hailed as the start of a new age of Indian tourism. But conservationists fear the impact of increased river traffic and pollution The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has officially launched the \u201cworld\u2019s longest river crui&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1676,1650,65,62,466,972,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cetaceans","category-dolphins","category-environment","category-india","category-pollution","category-rivers","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51840,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51839\/revisions\/51840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}