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Expedition Fails to Find Chinese Dolphin

Filed in archive Outdoor News by Beverly Durfee on December 6, 2006

Expedition Fails to Find Chinese Dolphin
During an expedition on the Chinese Yangtze River, 30 Chinese and foreign scientists spent nearly a month searching for the rare baiji or white-flag dolphinlinks, but not a single one was spotted. The scientist say the result is a sign that the mammal's Yangtze River habitat is increasingly being despoiled by pollution and human activity.

Members of the Swiss-based Baiji.org Foundation kept a diary during the 1,000 mile quest that confirmed reports from the Xinhua News Agency that the expedition was a failure. An expedition launched in 1997 found 13 baiji; a long, narrow dolphin that the foundation calls the rarest mammal in the world.
"We can't say the white-flag dolphin is extinct," Xinhua quoted Wang Ding, an expedition leader and a hydrobiologist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "However, the population has dropped dramatically."

Wang's estimate put the current baiji population at "no more than 50."






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