Yangtzse River dolphin 'now extinct'

Telegraph ^ | 08 Aug 2007 | Roger Highfield

[BGHater]

Yangtzse River dolphin: 'The loss of such a unique and charismatic species is a shocking tragedy'

[Red in Blue PA]

What a truly sad loss.

China : Wildlife :: Michael Vick : Dogs

[theDentist]

I wonder how he was prepared, and what wine was used?

[PurpleMan]

The grey white, long-beaked animal is the world’s first cetacean...to be made extinct by man.

Correction: Made extinct by the Chinese Communists

[subterfuge]

I think that in China, “illegal fishing” is when you fish without paying someone off. The chinese government doesn’t care much about humans, so why would they care about a fish?

[metmom]

Ships and tourist boats sucked them into their propellers, pollution poisoned their river home and, most of all, they suffered because of overfishing.

Shocking news from the People's Republic of Red China? Not.

It's surprising they lasted that long.

[Red Badger]

Is it gone or is the water so polluted that it left?.......

[Navy Patriot]

The grey white, long-beaked animal is the world’s first cetacean...to be made extinct by man.

Correction: Made extinct by the Chinese Communists

And environmentalism is the modern cover for communists, so this is the worlds first cetacean to be made extinct by environmentalists.

[T.Smith]

You're glumping the pond where the Humming-Fish hummed! No more can they hum, for their gills are all gummed. So I'm sending them off. Oh, their future is dreary. They'll walk on their fins and get woefully weary in search of some water that isn't so smeary.

[meandog]

China is in the midst of building the world’s largest dam across the Yangtze ... I suppose that also was a contributing factor.

[lesser_satan]

I’m shocked that Klintoon’s good friend and Strategic Partner, Red China, would allow their rivers to become so polluted that indigenous species would go extinct. /sarc

[never4get]

It was Bush’s fault.

[HamiltonJay]

Is it extinct, or just exitnct in the wild? I know I have seen examples of this species in captivity, or have all those passed as well?

[mtbopfuyn]

Ships and tourist boats sucked them into their propellers

Simply attaching a cage around the propellers would have eliminated that problem.

[PurpleMan]

Excellent. Following logic to it’s conclusion.

[IronJack]

The grey white, long-beaked animal is the world's first cetacean -the order of whales, dolphins and porpoises -to be made extinct by man

It should be honored in being a pioneer. But there are a lot more cetaceans out there, people ...

[Inquisitive1]

Correct

[Hacklehead]

“Yangtzse River dolphin ‘now extinct’”

Stan: Dude, dolphins are intelligent and friendly.
Cartman: Intelligent and friendly on rye bread with some mayonnaise.

[Chipper]

If this had happened in the Mississippi River, it would be the top news. It would lead to massive rallies allowing enviro-wackos to spout off constantly for months about how Evil America is. There would be arsons of tourist and fishing boats up and down the river, close to college campuses of course (see Animal Liberation Front's history of arson attacks).

It's China though, so the Sierra Club/Greenpeace crowd is silent.

[fish hawk]

Well, if you believe in Evolution you can still hope that another dolphin will evolve to take its place. No big deal.