All species are either Critically Endangered (Irrawaddy and Yangtze finless porpoise) or Endangered (Amazon, Ganges, Indus and Tucuxi). A 7th species - the Chinese river dolphin - was declared ...

Also declared extinct in 2006, the Chinese Yangtze river dolphin was a pale, putty-coloured mammal that looked rather less sleek and elegant than its sea-swimming cousins. Its plain looks hid a ...

Even today, there are still a few dolphins living in rivers. All six species are currently very rare and threatened with extinction. As a relative of the Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer ...

[8] They hope finless porpoises do not follow the fate of the baiji, the Chinese river dolphin, which is also a freshwater cetacean. It has not been spotted in the wild for 20 years and was ...

Chinese white dolphins lead a precarious existence in the Pearl River Delta. The population in Hong Kong waters had fallen by over 80 per cent in the previous 15 years, a 2020 emergency action ...