Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

In 1975, after the totoaba was declared endangered, Mexico outlawed fishing ... In this fight against extinction, Podolsky sees a cautionary tale about the importance of protecting rare animals ...

Ancient Chinese poems provided unexpected data on the Yangtze finless porpoise's habitat decline, showing a 65% range ...

MONTREAL— After a two-year delay, the Council of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement finally voted today to investigate Mexico’s failure to protect its critically endangered and endemic vaquita ...

Many animals that are going extinct ... porpoise. Today, populations are actually growing for the first time in years. While the Yangtze finless porpoise is still one of the most endangered ...

Numerous lists of species that are likely to go extinct within the next few years have been published. Front and center on all of them is the tiny, critically endangered porpoise known as the vaquita.

To track how this critically endangered porpoise's habitat range has changed ... and the Chinese paddlefish—have gone functionally extinct over the past few decades, likely due to the same ...

(Wang Chaoqun/Chinese Academy of Sciences) (CN) — The ever-smiling Yangtze finless porpoise has ruled rivers and inspired Chinese media for millennia, yet it now faces extinction ... Designated ...

[7] Yangtze finless porpoises are one of the few remaining freshwater cetaceans, which include certain whales and dolphins. They are categorised as “critically endangered”, according to the ...

GENEVA— The Secretariat to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora today announced trade sanctions against Mexico for its failure to control illegal fishing ...