Native to China’s Yangtze River, the Chinese paddlefish ... China listed the paddlefish as a protected species in 1989. Sightings of the fish continued in the 1990s, but in 1995 the last young ...

Aquatic biodiversity in the Yangtze River basin in China has been recovering following the launch of a 10-year fishing ban ...

The Yangtze river’s finless porpoise is one of the very ... Porpoises play an important role in keeping their environment healthy. They eat fish and other river creatures, which would otherwise ...

Every year, these prehistoric fish journey some 2,000 miles ... very few migratory sturgeons remain in the Yangtze river, the only place where the species is found, and there are fears that ...

A rare river dolphin may be one step closer to extinction as scientists fail to count any of the endangered species along China’s Yangtze River.

The Yangtze porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis) used to be a common sighting in the Yangtze River. Boaters would watch ...

Experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise from historic collections across China. The post Ancient ...

Now, life in the river has slowly improved since the fishing ban began. Last year, 227 species of native fish were found in the Yangtze River basin. This is 34 more than the previous year.

Along the Yangtze River, ecological restoration has been in process through the principle of "enhancing conservation while ...

Poachers in South Africa killed more than 100 rhinos in the first three months of this year, most of them inside national parks, highlighting an ongoing battle to protect one of the best-known ...