Author Topic: Chinese river dolphin almost certainly extinct (Read 3376 times)

Foxy Brown · « **on:** December 14, 2006, 07:07:05 PM »

A rare freshwater dolphin unique to China's Yangtze River is almost certainly extinct, a Swiss conservationist said after failing to spot a single animal on an expedition which ended on Wednesday.

LovelyMermaid · « **Reply #1 on:** December 14, 2006, 08:40:59 PM »

What a shame

They're so beautiful, too

pikapikapika · « **Reply #2 on:** December 15, 2006, 10:09:19 PM »

Foxy Brown · « **Reply #3 on:** August 09, 2007, 01:43:10 PM »

After more than 20 million years on the planet, the Yangtze river dolphin is today officially declared extinct, the first species of cetacean (whale, dolphin or porpoise) to be driven from this planet by human activity.

jkpark78 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 09, 2007, 02:24:39 PM »

i'm surprised that they survived this long with that pollution in that river..

Asmodai · « **Reply #5 on:** August 09, 2007, 02:51:07 PM »

Awww. I remember reading about them in Douglas Adam's Last Chance to See.

Makes me worried about what's next.

babydoll · « **Reply #6 on:** August 09, 2007, 03:07:33 PM »

Thats sad that a dolphin is extinct. I guess people were trying to do alot to it that now its extinct( such as litter and things like that).

schol3s · « **Reply #7 on:** August 09, 2007, 05:11:42 PM »

this is really a very sad news...
what a beautiful dolphin...

StreakInTheSky · « **Reply #8 on:** August 09, 2007, 08:42:17 PM »

aww poor dolphins. There goes one more animal driven to extinction by humans...

Muten · « **Reply #9 on:** August 10, 2007, 01:11:33 PM »

You said that it's sad because it's a dolphin but remember that one species disappear all the 3 min .

Asmodai · « **Reply #10 on:** August 10, 2007, 01:26:40 PM »

Meh. They're not cute, so they don't count. I seriously doubt anyone would shed a tear if cockroaches went extinct.

I am worried about pandas though.

Guchi_Jnr · « **Reply #11 on:** August 10, 2007, 02:11:35 PM »

Quote from: Asmodai on August 10, 2007, 01:26:40 PM

Meh. They're not cute, so they don't count.

And it's because of that type of mentality, that they are now gone forever..

:shake head:

Sexykago · « **Reply #12 on:** August 10, 2007, 09:56:01 PM »

Wow. That really REALLY sucks. And dolphins were one of my favorite kinds of animals. The loss of this is...tremendous.

Tuffty · « **Reply #13 on:** August 10, 2007, 10:21:58 PM »

Oh dear.

It's so weird to think that we'll never see that species again. Terrifying, almost.

wildstarr · « **Reply #14 on:** August 13, 2007, 05:05:52 AM »

Update:

Officially declared extinct

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/dolphin+species+declared+extinct/659872

JFC · « **Reply #15 on:** August 14, 2007, 04:04:41 AM »

^ Foxy beat you to it. She posted that they were declared extinct about a dozen posts above you.

Foxy Brown · « **Reply #16 on:** September 09, 2007, 07:58:28 PM »

A white-flag dolphin has been seen in Yangtze River in east China, just days after a leading Chinese scientist said the animal was likely extinct.

A man with a decoration company in east China's Anhui Province spotted a "big white animal" in the river at Xuba ferry in Tongling, Anhui, at 3:10 to 3:20 pm August 19, and filmed it with a digital camera, said Dr. Wang Kexiong, of the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Judged from its appearance and living environment, the animal in the footage was confirmed by the institute to be a white-flag dolphin, known in Chinese as "baiji", Wang said.

BigDnm01 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 09, 2007, 08:50:42 PM »

wow, just after being declared extinct, one pops out of the water, saying, "HEY! I'm still here!"

sh15uya · « **Reply #18 on:** September 09, 2007, 09:55:07 PM »

sad. Not only because it's a dolphin, but because of the biodiversity

well, in the next 20 years, more than 10 percent of all species ( plant & animals ) will disappear... and we don't even know they exist for some of them.

kwanleekwan · « **Reply #19 on:** September 11, 2007, 01:38:30 PM »

If we continue polluting the Earth, the next one will be human....