Witness to extinction: how we failed to save the Yangtze River dolphin
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| Item Description: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index Author's Note; Prologue; PART ONE: THE BEGINNING; PART TWO: THE END; Epilogue: And Then There Was One; Suggested Reading; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index 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 Chinese legends and folk tales. The Goddess of the Yangtze, as it was known, was also the lone representative of an entire and ancient branch of the Tree of Life. But perhaps the greater tragedy is that its status as one of the world'smost threatened mammals had been widely recognized, yet despite wide publicity virtually no international funds beca |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0191563595 0199549478 9780191563591 9780199549474 9780199549481 |
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