Another Dead One
The baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, has been declared extinct. A six week expedition to survey the Yangtze River has found no trace of the animal.
The small, white, nearly blind dolphin, nicknamed “the goddess of the Yangtze”, has been critically endangered for decades. A similar survey in 1997 sighted only 13 specimens.
If the findings are correct, the baiji is the first large aquatic mammal to have become extinct since hunting and overfishing killed off the Caribbean monk seal in the 1950s.
