Chinese River Dolphin declared extinct

[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Depressing news from China. You think they'd have learned something from watching the US trash our own environment duriing the first half of the last century, but not so much...

| BEIJING The "goddess of the Yangtze", a freshwater dolphin
unique to the Chinese river, is extinct. The baiji, above, is the first big
mammal to disappear as a result of Man's destruction of its habitat and the
first cetacean, or member of the whale family, to die out.
| The long-beaked mammals had swum in the Yangtze for 20 million
years and could be seen in their hundreds until the 1980s. Not one was
sighted during a six-week expedition. August Pfluger, its Swiss
conservationist leader, said: "We have to accept that the baiji is
functionally extinct. We have lost the race."
| The UN environment programme has declared the Yangtze a dead
zone, its water lacking sufficient oxygen to support fish.

GR,
That is very depressing. I'll have to search for the link, but if memory serves, by 2040, one quarter of the planet's species will become extinct.
Polar bears are expected to become so very soon.

[repent]

I dont like the environment and Im glad this animal is dead.
at least we dont have to worry about saving it anymore.

there are a couple of other animals Id like to kill off starting with those damn mules who took my money at Fairplex.


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[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by repent

I dont like the environment and Im glad this animal is dead.
at least we dont have to worry about saving it anymore.

there are a couple of other animals Id like to kill off starting with those damn mules who took my money at Fairplex.


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It figures........

[Seattleallstar]

this is sad news, its actually a tragedy of sorts. It reflects what man has done to its own earth.

[repent]

Originally Posted by Seattleallstar

this is sad news, its actually a tragedy of sorts. It reflects what man has done to its own earth.

yeah,
well like you said, its our earth and we can do whatever we want to with it.

I know I sure as hell never made a dime off a chinese dolphin.
good ridance.



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