After decades of seemingly irreversible decline, results from the latest census conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs show that the population of critically endangered ...
Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. The critically endangered ...
For at least 1,400 years, poets in China have penned pieces about the Yangtze River’s sights and sounds. Now, scientists are using those artworks to reconstruct an animal’s past. “When we do ...
Determined to save the last mammals in the Yangtze River from extinction, China plans to relocate eight critically endangered finless porpoise’s to a new home far away from humans. By moving the ...
A research expedition underway on the Yangtze is looking to discover how many of the world's only freshwater finless porpoises can be found in the river - and how to save the remaining population from ...
Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 years ...
A Yangtze finless porpoise leaps out of the water in Yichang, Hubei province in 2020. YANG HE/CHINA DAILY A painful setback can sometimes act as a catalyst for meaningful change. When the Baiji ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. “The [Yangtze finless porpoise ] is moving fast toward its extinction,” said Wang Ding, head of the research expedition, with the Institute of ...
A Yangtze finless porpoise emerges from the water amid the morning mist in Poyang Lake, Jiangxi province, in Feb, 2021. YANG HE/FOR CHINA DAILY A painful setback can sometimes act as a catalyst for ...