Posted on 08/20/2025 9:14:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Chinese scientists are in a battle to save one of the last large animal species living in the Yangtze River – and a complete ban on fishing in the region is helping them.
At the Institute of Hydrobiology in Wuhan, just 5km (3.1 miles) from the banks of the river, the preserved bodies of the now-extinct river dolphin (baiji in Chinese) and paddle fish sit silently behind panes of glass.
"Now that those have become extinct, we're going to save the Yangtze river porpoise," Professor Wang Xi tells the BBC. "It has become the most important animal here."
It was in 2002 that the last known baiji died, 22 years after researchers at the Institute started caring for it. A year later, the last known paddle fish - a type of ray-finned fish which can grow to more than 3 metres - was accidentally caught by fishermen and, despite being radio tagged and released, disappeared.
The goal now is to stop the Yangtze finless river porpoise - 1,200 of which remain in the wild, according to current estimates – from suffering the same fate.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
After the Chinese ate them all.
“Countries full of them now: people walking around all day long, every minute of the day, worried... about everything! Worried about the air; worried about the water; worried about the soil; worried about insecticides, pesticides, food additives, carcinogens; worried about radon gas; worried about asbestos; worried about saving endangered species. Let me tell you about endangered species all right? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It’s arrogant meddling; it’s what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn’t anybody understand that? Interfering with nature. Over 90% - over, WAY over – 90% of all the species that have ever lived on this planet, ever lived, are gone! Pwwt! They’re extinct! We didn’t kill them all, they just disappeared. That’s what nature does. They disappear these days at the rate of 25 a day and I mean regardless of our behaviour. Irrespective of how we act on this planet, 25 species that were here today will be gone tomorrow. Let them go gracefully. Leave nature alone.”
-George Carlin
Utter bs.
Propaganda for the west idiots. The 白左。The baizuo, the white left who believe anything.
Ate and/or poisoned them all.
How about the sharks they kill just for the fins, totally disgusting.
Exactly.
A cause for those who need a porpoise in life.
Any Chinese fishing boat outside of their territorial waters should be sunk.
Nothing to doubt here, folks - these guys are totally trustworthy and competent.
(How about the sharks they kill just for the fins...)
No soup 🍲🍲🍲 🍜🍜🍜 🥣🥣🥣 for you
(I have not tried it)
Agreed.
Sadly.
Finless porpoise contain no additives and are 100% natural. Excellent with water chestnuts.
Finless porpoise contain no additives and are 100% natural. Excellent with water chestnuts.
“Mom, the tuna doesn’t taste as good as it used to.”
China has been “managiing” the Yangtze pretty radically and has destroyed or disturbed a lot of habitat.
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