[PDF.49mg] Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin
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Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin
Samuel Turvey
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| #3204417 in Books | 2009-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.40 x.90 x8.60l,.95 | File type: PDF | 234 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Too little, too late|By KPDR87|I loved this book. I think I took over twenty pages of notes on it. Turvey, of course, talks about why the baiji is now - at the very least - "functionally extinct", which was the result of fishing practices (entanglement in fixed nets and rolling hook lines, as well as something called "electrofishing"), centuries of directed hunting, ship strike|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Turvey, a conservation biologist with the Zoological Society of London, was a researcher and lead author of the 2006 scientific report that found that the baiji-a pearly-white freshwater dolphin formerly endemic to China's Yang
The tragic recognition of the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin or baiji in 2007 became a major news story and sent shockwaves around the world. It made a romantic story, for the baiji was a unique and beautiful creature that features in many Chinese legends and folk tales. The Goddess of the Yangtze, as it was known, was also the lone representative of an entire and ancient branch of the Tree of Life. But perhaps the greater tragedy is that its status as one of th...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin | Samuel Turvey. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
