Rare Chinese porpoises dive toward extinction
Sunday, March 31, 2013 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
Giant pandas have become China's poster child for endangered species, but now another iconic animal in the country can claim to be even rarer than the bears. There are just 1,000 individual Yangtze finless porpoises left in the wild, according to a new report. That's less than half of what a similar survey of the porpoises found six years ago. The rapidly dwindling numbers have conservationists wo...