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The Great White Hopeless
Chinese white dolphin is likely extinct |
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18 Dec 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Great White Hopeless Chinese white dolphin is likely extinct The baiji, a white dolphin found only in China's Yangtze River, appears to have gone extinct. Lipotes vexillifer has been swimming China's longest river for some 20 million years, but in the end it was no match for China's surging economy. In the last few decades, the Yangtze's shallows have been dredged for shipping, many of its fish have been caught or driven away, ... |
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| Topics: China, marine life, news (all these topics) |
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