Well it appears we have finally gone and done it. We’ve managed to drive an entire species extinct. Thanks to our over priced, gas gusseling, super duty SUV’s, our gotta have it now no matter what the cost attitude, and of course there’s our instationable greed that lies behind every decision we make. Thanks to all of this combined with our complete lack of responsiblity to the planet we live on, the Yangtze Rive Dolphin is no longer a member of this planet. The loss represents the first time an animal weighing more than 200 pounds has been completely wiped out.
No only that, but it seems that we’ve eliminated the dolphin in record breaking time. According to a report from FOX News, there were as many at 400 alive when surveyed back in 1981 then jump 18 years to 1991 and you’ll find the an amazingly low number of just 13 were know to be swiming free. Just how long has the dolphin been on the planet? “It’s a relic species, more than 20 million years old, that persisted through the most amazing kinds of changes in the planet. It’s been here longer than the Andes Mountains have been on Earth” claims Barbara Taylor of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service.
20 MILLION YEARS ON THE PLANET!!!! Gone. Never to been seen again and for what reason? Fishing. “We have to find a way to let small-time fishermen put food on their tables that doesn’t involve putting gill nets in the water that decimate these species. Unless we figure out a way to deal with this problem, the baiji may be the first in quite a long line of animals to face extinction” says Taylor.
Is it possible that in a world as big as ours, that somewhere out there a lonely Yangtze dolpin still exists? Yes,but let’s face it that’s nothing that a little more pollution can’t fix.
For more information on the dophin’s dissappearance, check out this brief report from the BBC:
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