Yangtze Finless Porpoise Living Environment Began to Attract the Attention of the Chinese and Foreign Scientists

The expedition team members, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the finless porpoise, project officials, Dr. Zhang Xinqiao said, because of the Maritime Industry, the finless porpoise natural habitat fragmentation, degradation and even the loss of a serious situation, especially in the Nanjing section of the river, docks contiguous, almost no contiguous the natural habitat of the finless porpoise found.

The national second-class protected animals Yangtze finless porpoise is the Yangtze unique freshwater cetaceans. Six years ago, after the national first-class protected animals baiji in the Yangtze disappear, the Yangtze finless porpoise living environment has begun to attract the attention of Chinese and foreign scientists. In recent years, the aquatic animal protection experts at home and abroad are worried with the deteriorating ecological environment in the Yangtze River, the finless porpoise population is also facing the threat of extinction.

Scientists baiji population large-scale expedition in 2006, after the judgment, the finless porpoise population is moving baiji footsteps, the annual rate of 5% -10% of decline. Wang Ding, a researcher of the Institute of Hydrobiology, the expedition team commander, said: "This judgment has initially been confirmed not good protection, 15 years may be difficult in the wild goodbye finless porpoise."

It is reported that the expedition led by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Wuhan Baiji Conservation Foundation jointly organized. Next, the expedition team based on the finless porpoise distribution data a comprehensive analysis of the density, the width of the river, the statistics of the number of middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River finless porpoise trends and propose targeted based on suggestions.

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