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Yangtze River Dolphin II

In 2006, I led a 39-day expedition in search of any trace of the last remaining baiji in the Yangtze. A team of 60 eminent marine biologists from China, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States carried out detection tests without being able to locate a single baiji. A year later, the Royal Biological Society of the United Kingdom published in its journal Biology Letters(link is external) that this animal species was “functionally extinct”. Although even today we are sometimes informed of alleged appearances of baijis, they have never been confirmed until now, and it is very unlikely that we will one day see this long-nosed dolphin again, which navigated the murky waters of the Yangtze much more by its sonar than by his eyes. Considered in past times a protective deity of fishermen and boatmen along the 1,700 kilometers of the navigable channel of the great fluvial artery that connects central China with the Pacific Ocean, this species only lived in the middle and lower course of the Yangtze. and in the great lakes of its basin. According to incomplete statistics, 90% of known Baiji deaths prior to 1985 were due to human activities. The decline in the population of freshwater dolphins and the contraction of their natural range in recent decades were mainly caused by industrial, abusive, poaching or harmful fishing activities, as well as the rampant growth of container ships, coal barges and boats with outboard motors. On a scientific level, freshwater dolphins are natural indicators of great importance because they allow the status and evolution of biodiversity in the river environment to be gauged.

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