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Re: The Chinese River Dolphin is Now Extinct....
Originally posted by Draco69
Rest in Peace.....Failure in Yangtze dolphin search
A freshwater dolphin found only in China is "effectively extinct", an expedition has declared following a fruitless six-week search.
The Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji, was listed as "critically endangered" on the Red List of Threatened Species.
It has been dying out due to habitat degradation, overfishing, pollution and ship traffic - which confounds the sonar the animal uses to find food.
Zoologists announced a plan to save the mammal earlier this year.
"We have to accept the fact that the baiji is extinct. We lost the race," said August Pfluger, co-head of the expedition and director of baiji.org, an environmental group dedicated to saving the animal.
"It is a tragedy, a loss not only for China, but for the entire world," he added.
Mr Pfluger admitted it was possible that animals had been missed despite the use of optical and acoustic equipment and trained observers.
The baiji lives along the lower reaches of China's environmentally-degraded Yangtze River and is thought to have been in existence for about 20 million years.
If confirmed, it would be the first large aquatic mammal driven to extinction since hunting and overfishing killed off the Californian monk seal in the 1950s.
The damage to the baiji's habitat is also affecting the Yangtze finless porpoise, whose numbers have fallen to below 400, the expedition found.
Poor fella. This animal was alive for more than 20 million years....until the friggin' Chinese decided to make plastic bags out of their skins....
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It's already been established that China sucks, they had an overpopulation problem with dogs and decided that the best way to deal with the "crisis" was to beat a bunch to death with a big stick. I mean, if we were talking about goths or emos or hippies, that's one thing, but these are dogs, dogs deserve better.
I'm not being cute, I really mean it.
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Re: Re: The Chinese River Dolphin is Now Extinct....
Originally posted by BackFire
It's already been established that China sucks, they had an overpopulation problem with dogs and decided that the best way to deal with the "crisis" was to beat a bunch to death with a big stick. I mean, if we were talking about goths or emos or hippies, that's one thing, but these are dogs, dogs deserve better.I'm not being cute, I really mean it.
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