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

[OA]

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)...

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by TMNTerminator

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)...

Heh Heh Heh.... Yeah, China the "Communist" nation that's more capitalistic than even the US. Man, do us all a favor and stop saying you're Commies when you're chompin up all the resorces.

But then again, they belive their biggest hero wasn't a disgusting monster who didn't do any of the stuff he has been said he did. The famous hike? Didn't happen. They also believe that when their government is hiding an epidemic of some horrible disease that it doesn't exist.

And they say the US are monsters.... hell, we just built Frankenstine here.

[Time Mistress]

This is just so sad, and truly depressing news, it makes me want to cry.