[CN] Dolphin Previously Thought Extinct Spotted - [src - WWF]

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[image: Baiji]<http://wwf.worldwildlife.org/site/R?i=TTt5Bq81BV6U_sj_SEQuZA..>

© Chinese Academy of Science*Dolphin Previously Thought Extinct

Spotted*<http://wwf.worldwildlife.org/site/R?i=9dzSqhFX2FeLd6q-D763XQ..>

Last month, the Chinese media reported that a local businessman in Tongling

City in east China's Anhui Province filmed " a big white animal " with his

digital camera. The footage was later confirmed to be a Baiji

dolphin<http://wwf.worldwildlife.org/site/R?i=GdpMX2eHgZKkKAaV4D88oQ..>--the

first Baiji sighted in the

Yangtze<http://wwf.worldwildlife.org/site/R?i=N8-22kncAi7VbUQyxJafOA..>since

a scientific expedition last year, during which no Baiji were spotted.

This reported sighting of a Baiji, or Yangtze River dolphin, means there is

a chance for people to take further action and protect the cetaceans in the

Yangtze from extinction. " This sighting presents a last hope that the Baiji

may not go the way of the dodo bird, " said Karen Baragona, WWF's Yangtze

River Basin program leader. " Other species have been brought back from the

brink of extinction, like the southern right whale and white rhinos, but

only through the most intensive conservation efforts. " WWF has been actively

involved in the protection of cetaceans and their habitat in the Yangtze

River.

 

 

 

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