Bolivian President Juan Evo Morales has taken a special interest in protecting the Bolivian Pink Dolphin with new legislation that calls upon the nation's armed forces to protect the animal.
Locally known in the Amazon as "boto," these dolphins are threatened by fisherman who view them as competition, mercury poisoning caused by illegal gold mining operations, river damming, fishing nets, pollution, and erosion in its habitat.
Now deemed a "national treasure," Inia boliviensis is now protected by fishing bans and an initiative to maintain the river basins that the dolphin inhabits.
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