India, Feb. 7 -- A two-day-long counting exercise to estimate the number of crocodiles in the Vishwamitri river of Gujarat's Vadodara city concluded on February 6, 2025.

The data is being analysed. However, it will be some time before the final results are out, an expert in charge of the analysis told Down To Earth (DTE).

"Yes. We have collected the data and are analysing it. I cannot give any definite date as to when we will be ready with the final figures," Ritesh Gelot from the GEER Foundation told DTE.

The Vishwamitri originates on the hill of Pavagadh in Panchmahals district and flows some 200 kilometres into the Gulf of Khambhat. Primarily rain-fed, it flows through a 25-km stretch of Vadodara, Gujarat's third-largest city, along...