Wednesday, 12 October 2016

China's 'extinct' dolphin may have returned to Yangtze river, say conservationists

China's 'extinct' dolphin may have returned to Yangtze river, say conservationists

Chinese conservationists believe they may have caught a rare glimpse of a freshwater dolphin that was declared functionally extinct a decade ago having graced the Yangtze river for 20 million years. Scientists and environmentalists had appeared to abandon hope that China’s baiji, or white dolphin, could survive as a species after they failed to find a single animal during a fruitless six-week hunt along the 6,300-km (3,915-mile) waterway in 2006.

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