Most credible sighting since 2002 WUHU, Anhui province, CHINA––Declared “functionally extinct” in 2007, baiji dolphins may yet persist in the Yangtze River, says the China Biodiversity Conservation & Green Development Foundation. But even if the baiji is no more, the chance that the species might be recovered is likely to give Yangtze recovery efforts […]
Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtse River Dolphin
by Samuel Turvey Oxford University Press (198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016), 2008. 224 pages, paperback. $29.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Samuel Turvey, born in Lohja, Finland, as a child enjoyed a rare sighting of the Lake Saimaa seal. Landlocked by receding glaciers about 9,500 years ago, the Saimaa seal has adapted to […]