The New York Times blog reports on the Chinese government’s assertion that a school of dolphins helped prevent an attack by pirates on a Chinese merchant ships in the Gulf of Aden: It has to be said that none of the...
Sherif Soliman, a Current Correspondent, says in the video that “Rapid development in China lead to the extinction of the Yangtze fresh water dolphin a.k.a the Baiji. There remains another mammal, the porpoise, in the Yangtze River in the same position where the dolphin was.” An expert interviewed by Soliman says that if the porpoise […]
From National Geographic News: A team of marine-life scholars led by Wang Ding, a scientist at China’s Institute of Hydrobiology, examined digital video footage recently taken along the eastern section of the Yangtze River. The video provides evidence of the survival of the baiji, or whitefin dolphin, the team confirmed. Now experts at the institute […]
Chinese dolphin or Baiji, one of the world’s most rare and threatened mammal species, “has been declared officially extinct following an intensive survey of its natural habitat.” From The Guardian: The freshwater marine mammal, which could grow to eight feet long and weigh up to a quarter of a tonne, is the first large vertebrate […]
Environmentalist and journalist Yongcheng Wang wrote the following column for Chinadialogue: The baiji, one of the world’s four species of freshwater dolphins, left the oceans 20 million years ago and settled in the middle and lower reaches of China’s Yangtze River. The baiji has existed for around 25 million years, far longer than the famed […]
From The New York Times: Robert L. Pitman has spent 30 years studying the world’s whales, dolphins and other aquatic mammals. He returned to San Deigo, Calif., last week after a fruitless six-week expedition in which teams of five observers on two vessels scoured the Yangtze River from the Three Gorges Dam to Shanghai, seeking […]
From Xinhua: A team of 30 Chinese and foreign scientists have failed in a 26-day search to find the rare white-fin dolphin in the Yangtze River. The white-fin dolphin is more endangered than the giant panda due to the pollution and environmental degradation, said Wang Ding, vice director of the hydrobiology institute of the Chinese […]
From Reuters (link) A group of rare dolphins living in China’s Pearl River Delta is getting steadily rarer. Experts say up to 1,000 pink-colored dolphins, known as Chinese White Dolphins, may survive the environmental ravages brought on by thriving trade and an explosive economic boom in southern China.
From CNN: Asia’s dwindling populations of river dolphins are under increasing threat from pollution, dam construction and entanglement in fishermen’s nets, global nature conservation body WWF has said. The warning, issued on the eve of U.N. World Water Day, said only 13 of the dolphins were known to be left in China’s Yangtze River where […]
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