Comments on: Yangtze River lethal in five years http://osakasteve.com/2006/05/30/yangtze-river-lethal-in-five-years/ "All the geek that's fit to news." --J.D. Lewin Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:38:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Peter Barker http://osakasteve.com/2006/05/30/yangtze-river-lethal-in-five-years/comment-page-1/#comment-8400 Peter Barker Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:17:51 +0000 http://osakasteve.com/2006/05/30/yangtze-river-lethal-in-five-years/#comment-8400 Yikes! That's bad news. Guess it might go some way towards explaining the functional extinction of the baiji. At the China environment website I work for, www.chinadialogue.net, we carried a piece by a leading Chinese environmental campaigner http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/673-Farewell-to-the-baiji Now more bad news comes from the Yangtze. The finless porpoise is under threat. An optimistic estimate puts these Yangtze river dwellers’ numbers as low as 14000 - not yet facing imminent extinction but falling at 7.5 per cent a year. Sand dredging and heavy shipping traffic have been blamed. http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/673-Farewell-to-the-baiji It’s a sad tale - let’s hope it’s not a repeat of the baiji story. Yikes! That’s bad news.

Guess it might go some way towards explaining the functional extinction of the baiji. At the China environment website I work for, http://www.chinadialogue.net, we carried a piece by a leading Chinese environmental campaigner http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/673-Farewell-to-the-baiji

Now more bad news comes from the Yangtze. The finless porpoise is under threat. An optimistic estimate puts these Yangtze river dwellers’ numbers as low as 14000 - not yet facing imminent extinction but falling at 7.5 per cent a year. Sand dredging and heavy shipping traffic have been blamed. http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/673-Farewell-to-the-baiji

It’s a sad tale - let’s hope it’s not a repeat of the baiji story.

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