Yangtze River Dolphins say so long and thanks for all the fish

OA · 08-15-2007, 06:04 PM

Terrible, terrible news. Hopefully, the Amazonian counterpart will fare better, though severe pressures in those rainforests aren't helping either...

What gets me though is that if in '97 they only found 14, they probably should have acted then (capturing, breeding, etc.). I mean, whenever we have an endangered animal, lots of work goes into increasing population, esp. if that animal has a pop in the low hundereds. To get to the point where you can almost count the pop. on 2 hands and NOT do something that should be a crime as well. Those scientists should have acted much sooner (though to be honest, I don't know their exact situation and how much of an attempt was made)

B/w this and the gazillion of recently recalled Mattel toys hopefully people/governements will realize that all that "cheap, sustainable" work/products coming out of China needs a serious overhaul (which is completely unlikely)...

08-15-2007, 06:04 PM	#4
OA Scatter the nuns!! Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,981	Terrible, terrible news. Hopefully, the Amazonian counterpart will fare better, though severe pressures in those rainforests aren't helping either... What gets me though is that if in '97 they only found 14, they probably should have acted then (capturing, breeding, etc.). I mean, whenever we have an endangered animal, lots of work goes into increasing population, esp. if that animal has a pop in the low hundereds. To get to the point where you can almost count the pop. on 2 hands and NOT do something that should be a crime as well. Those scientists should have acted much sooner (though to be honest, I don't know their exact situation and how much of an attempt was made) B/w this and the gazillion of recently recalled Mattel toys hopefully people/governements will realize that all that "cheap, sustainable" work/products coming out of China needs a serious overhaul (which is completely unlikely)... __________________