The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct reports a scientific expedition from the Institute for Hydrobiology Wuhan, China, and the Swiss-based baiji.org Foundation.

One rare dolphin species -- the Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji -- is extinct. Another, the Ganges River dolphin, is critically endangered. Some of the threats affecting the Irrawaddy are man-made.

When the Baiji Dolphin was declared "functionally extinct" in 2006, it was a once-in-25-million-year event. Never before had a whole species of dolphin been wiped off the planet because of human ...

In December 2006 the Yangtze river dolphin, called the baiji, succumbed to pollution, propeller blades, dams, and overfishing; it became the first cetacean to be declared "functionally" extinct ...

Image courtesy of André Zumak/Mamirauá Institute. A seventh river dolphin endemic to the Yangtze River in China, the baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), was declared likely extinct in 2007. This is the ...

We hope the extinction of the baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin, around 2006 will serve as an alarm to prevent the extinction of this small and unique dolphin population off Taiwan.

Here's a look at 23 species that have vanished in the last 150 years. The Yangtze River dolphin, or "baiji," was native to ...

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The fourth Asian species is the Ganges dolphin. Now numbering less than 2000 animals, it also faces a huge struggle to survive in one of the most polluted and populated rivers in the world. “Ten years ...