Baiji

Consider the case of the Yangtze River dolphin, a long-beaked, nearly blind cetacean also known as the baiji, that inhabited about 1,000 linear miles of a single river in southeast China. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He sighed: Over the past twenty years the baiji has been the victim of politics and scientific disputes. ❋ Jonathan Watts (2010)

Yangtze river dolphin - Also known as the baiji, this is the only living representative of an entire family, having diverged from other river dolphins more than 20m years ago. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The baiji was a playful animal that dined on the Yangtze's once plentiful fish and was traditionally venerated by the region's people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He returned to San Deigo, Calif., last week after a fruitless six-week expedition in which teams of five observers on two vessels scoured the Yangtze River from the Three Gorges Dam to Shanghai, seeking the last members of the rarest cetacean species of all, a white, nearly blind dolphin called the baiji, Lipotes vexillifer. . . ❋ Unknown (2006)

(02/23/2010) In 2006 a survey in China to locate the endangered Yangtze River dolphin, known as the baiji, found no evidence of its survival. ❋ Jeremy Hance (2010)

In the end, they couldn’t decide, so the baiji is the victim. ❋ Jonathan Watts (2010)

While several teams have gone looking for baiji, the last time anyone photographed the creature was in 2002. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The last official assessment was completed in 2008, and the group stuck with the "critically endangered" label, although it concedes that the baiji is possibly extinct. ❋ Unknown (2011)

First, scientists recorded the vanishing and apparent extinction of the baiji, a dolphin species unique to that river. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The baiji or Chinese river dolphin was declared extinct in 2007 for example due to loss and disturbance of its habitat. ❋ Guillaume Chapron (2010)

Description: The recent likely extinction of the baiji or Chinese river dolphin, makes the vaquita (Phocoena sinus)? the Gulf of California porpoise? the most endangered cetacean. ❋ Guillaume Chapron (2010)

Sometimes, as in the case of the baiji, the fix came too late, but the idea of progress was based on the assumption that humanity would eventually get it right. ❋ Jonathan Watts (2010)

I look back on the baiji expedition as the biggest story of my journalistic career. ❋ Jonathan Watts (2010)

The speeches mentioned unprecedented international cooperation, state-of-the-art equipment, and determination not to give up on the baiji. ❋ Jonathan Watts (2010)