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Triggering a remote camera with her movements, a Bengal tiger takes a self-portrait while cooling off in a pool. Photo: Michael Nichols
Deaths Amongst China’s ‘River Pigs’ Raises Fear of Extinction
by PhysOrg staff
China says 16 endangered finless porpoises have been found dead since the beginning of the year and experts blame water pollution and climate change for pushing the species toward extinction.
The freshwater porpoise — popularly known in Chinese as the “river pig” — mainly lives in China’s Yangtze River and two lakes linked to the waterway. Authorities have discovered 10 dead porpoises in Dongting Lake in the central province of Hunan since March, said a statement Thursday by the government of Yueyang city, which is located on the lake’s shore.
Another six dead porpoises have been found in Poyang Lake in the eastern province of Jiangxi since the beginning of the year, the official Xinhua news agency said late Wednesday. It quoted experts as warning the species will be extinct within a matter of years. Wang Kexiong, a researcher at China’s Institute of Hydrobiology, said water pollution, shipping, sand dredging and illegal fishing were all possible contributing factors to the recent deaths.
Many waterways in China have become heavily contaminated with toxic waste from factories and farms — pollution blamed on more than three decades of rapid economic growth and lax enforcement of environmental protection laws…
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Memorial poesy ring. Ring in memory of one who went to sea. Gold, rock crystal and textile, 1592.
“The cruel seas, remember, took him in November.”
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“The Golden Shower”: Gisele Bundchen @ Alexander McQueen S/S 1998
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