Witness to extinction : how we failed to save the Yangtze River dolphin / Samuel Turvey.
2008
QL737.C436 T87 2008 (Mapit)
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Witness to extinction : how we failed to save the Yangtze River dolphin / Samuel Turvey.
Author
Turvey, Sam.
ISBN
9780199549474
0199549478
0199549478
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xii, 234 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Call Number
QL737.C436 T87 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.95/95380951
599.538
599.538
Summary
The tragic recognition of the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin or baiji in 2007 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's most threatened mammals had been widely recognized, yet despite wide publicity virtually no international funds became available. The author recounts the loss of the Yangtze River Dolphin from his unique perspective as a conservation biologist deeply involved in the struggle to save the dolphin. This is both a celebration of a beautiful and remarkable animal that once graced one of China's greatest rivers, its natural history and its role as a cultural symbol; and also a personal, eyewitness account of the failures of policy and the struggle to get funds that led to its tragic demise.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The goddess of the Yangtze
The Amazon of the East
The aquatic panda
East meets West
The rarest animal in the world
The politics of extinction
End game
The hunting of the snark
The golden channel
So long, and thanks for all the fishing
What have we learnt? Collected fictions
And then there was one.
The Amazon of the East
The aquatic panda
East meets West
The rarest animal in the world
The politics of extinction
End game
The hunting of the snark
The golden channel
So long, and thanks for all the fishing
What have we learnt? Collected fictions
And then there was one.