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9780199549481

Witness to Extinction How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin

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    9780199549481

  • ISBN10:

    0199549486

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-10-15
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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 Chines

Author Biography


Samuel Turvey is Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology, a department of the Zoological Society of London. He is a conservation biologist with a principal interest in the history and prehistory of human-caused extinctions and in developing conservation strategies for today's threatened species. He was deeply involved with the conservation efforts surrounding the Yangtze River dolphin, and was the lead author of the 2007 paper which declared that it was probably extinct, generating tremendous international media attention.

Table of Contents

Prologue
The Goddess of the Yangtze
The Amazon of the East
Qi Qi
A New Hope?
The Rarest Animal in the World
Everything Is Going to be OK
The Politics of Extinction
End Game
The Hunting of the Snark
The Golden Channel
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fishing
What Have We Learnt?
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