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Post by Moutanche on Sept 27, 2007 12:15:49 GMT 1
look at these pics: you'll never seen them in real. since the begening of september 2007, baiji dolphin has disappeared of the earth. This dolphin lived in yang tse kiang in china , and due to the pollution and many others things ( including human bullshit ) it disappear .
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Post by ironman on Sept 27, 2007 13:35:44 GMT 1
probably because them lil chinese buggers ate them all.. what a shame i wonder when the time comes when we can only see animals in the zoo,..
people are terrible, we are the cancer of this earth, killing the planet slowly but surly..
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Post by ironman on Sept 27, 2007 13:38:32 GMT 1
The Baiji population declined drastically in recent decades as China industrialized and made heavy use of the river for fishing, transportation, and hydroelectricity. The last confirmed sighting of a Baiji was in 2004, with an (as yet) unconfirmed sighting in August 2007.[2] Efforts were made to conserve the species, but a late 2006 expedition failed to find any Baiji in the river. Organizers declared the Baiji "functionally extinct",[3] which would make it the first aquatic mammal species to become extinct since the demise of the Japanese Sea Lion and the Caribbean Monk Seal in the 1950s. It would also be the first recorded extinction of a well-studied cetacean species (it is unclear if some previously extinct varieties were species or subspecies) to be directly attributable to human influence.
In August 2007, Zeng Yujiang reportedly videotaped a large white animal swimming in the Yangtze.[2]. Although Wang Kexiong of the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has tentatively confirmed [4] that the animal on the video is a baiji, the presence of only one or a few animals is not enough to save a functionally extinct species from true extinction.
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