Regarded in China as the "goddess of the Yangtze", the 20 million year old river dolphin was one of the world's oldest species. The Baiji is the first large mammal brought to extinction as a ...

River dolphins have no predators, except for humans. In December 2006 the Yangtze river dolphin, called the baiji, succumbed to pollution, propeller blades, dams, and overfishing; it became the ...

However, the ecology of the Yangtze River has been destroyed, and the dolphin tribe, which has survived for thousands of years, is gradually becoming extinct. The dolphin fairy, Jiang Ling ...

The dolphin’s extinction is a sad story because an estimated 6,000 dolphins were living in the Yangtze River during the 1950s, which was considered a healthy population. 1. In paragraph 1 ...