By
Michelle Warwicker, BBC Nature
Protection
for highly threatened Yangtze finless porpoises in China is
"insufficient", researchers say.
The
mammals have suffered a dramatic decline and are now threatened with
extinction.
Researchers
carried out a survey to the establish how the animals are distributed in the
Yangtze river.
They
found current protected sections of the Yangtze do not cover all the areas
where most porpoises were found.
Details
of the findings are published in the journal Animal Conservation.
Another
freshwater cetacean, the Yangtze river dolphin or "baiji" (Lipotes vexillifer) may already be
extinct, and researchers are concerned the Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) could
be the next to disappear.
Read
more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21261583
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