Yangtze Finless Porpoise Faces Extinction in 15 Years
August 19, 2010
August 19, 2010
BEIJING, Aug. 19 -- Chinese Academy of Sciences issued the following news release:
The Yangtze River finless porpoise population is declining by 5 percent every year, said Wang Ding, deputy director of the Institute of Hydrobiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in an interview with the Beijing News published on August 15. He added that they may become extinct in the next 15 years.
No more than 1,500 Yangtze finless porpoise remain today. There were 1,800 four . . .
The Yangtze River finless porpoise population is declining by 5 percent every year, said Wang Ding, deputy director of the Institute of Hydrobiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in an interview with the Beijing News published on August 15. He added that they may become extinct in the next 15 years.
No more than 1,500 Yangtze finless porpoise remain today. There were 1,800 four . . .