baiji
Chinese river dolphin
Yangtze River dolphin
whitefin dolphin

Baiji was captured with little or no fighting during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

And about 150 large tankers would have to leave Baiji fully loaded every day to remove the current production of black oil.

'You see there are only two hundred baiji in two thousand kilometres.

A suicide car bomber killed between three and seven people when he targeted a police patrol outside a restaurant in Baiji.

I thought, there's a funny coincidence, it's called the Baiji Hotel.

The American military said a soldier died in a vehicle accident in Baiji.

Three policemen were killed and seven more were wounded during a suicide car bombing in Baiji.

On Thursday, new details emerged about the shutdown of a large power plant in Baiji the day before.

Following the invasion, Baiji subsequently became the scene of a number of insurgent attacks.

This plan re-emphasised the three measures identified at the 1986 workshop and was adopted as the national policy for the conservation of the Baiji.

She was daughter of a Baiji.

Also in Baiji, the police said they had found the bodies of two Iraqis who had been executed, news services reported.

With the attacks, the American death toll killed in the Baiji area rose to seven since Thursday.

August 22: A suicide fuel tanker bombing killed 27 people at a Baiji police station.

A third was killed by a roadside bomb Wednesday near Baiji, north of Baghdad.

However, as there have been no confirmed sightings since 2004, the Baiji is presumed to be functionally extinct at this time.

On Sunday night one soldier was killed when his vehicle hit a land mine in Baiji, about 120 miles north of Baghdad, the military reported.

Late Friday afternoon, a soldier was killed and seven more were wounded when a bomb went off near Baiji, about 100 miles north of the capital.

The men worked as engineers for a detergent company in the industrial town of Baiji, north of Baghdad.

A suicide car bomber killed five Iraqi soldiers and wounded four others when he targeted a checkpoint in Baiji.

There was also concern over problems with refineries, including a shutdown at a major refinery in Baiji, 130 miles north of Baghdad.

Member of technical delegation to China to assist in recovery of Baiji or white river dolphin.

October 9: 22 people were killed and 30 were wounded in an attack by two suicide truck bombers in Baiji.

The explosions affect oil supplies to Iraq's biggest refinery at Baiji and imports of refined products.

The dam contributed to the functional extinction of the Baiji Yangtze river dolphin.

A research expedition concludes that the Chinese River Dolphin is now likely extinct, directly due to human action.

The wu refers to the finless porpoises, which are black, and the bak, white, referring to Chinese river dolphins.

Other aquatic species are being endangered by the dam, particularly the Baiji, or the Chinese River Dolphin.

December 13 - The Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct.

Two other species identified in this century, the bumblebee bat and the Chinese river dolphin, already rank among the dozen most endangered species in the world.

It is involved in the study of the Finless Porpoise and the now extinct Chinese River Dolphin.

The Shishou City National Baiji Reserve for Chinese river dolphins is nearby.

Baiji (or Chinese river dolphin), Lipotes vexillifer (possibly extinct, since December 2006)

Though the situation has been improved, there is still a high possibility for the baiji dolphins(Chinese River Dolphin) to go extinct in the decades to come.

Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) (likely to be extinct)

"Lipotes vexillifer: Baiji or Chinese River Dolphin" (cetacea.org, via Internet Archive)

Chinese River Dolphin (or Baiji), Lipotes vexillifer - Lives in the Yangtze River in China (one of the most endangered of all dolphins and whales).

Rivalling the Indus River dolphin for the dubious distinction of most endangered dolphin, is the baiji or Chinese river dolphin, a little-known species found only in the Yangtze River.

These were discussed by a jury on December 30, 2005, and shortlisted to three designs: a Chinese river dolphin (lipotes vexillifer), and two figures from traditional Chinese mythology, the Monkey King and Ne Zha.

Do you know about the Yangtze river dolphin?

A 2006 survey found no individuals of the Yangtze river dolphin, which now appears to be functionally extinct.

New Scientist "Yangtze river dolphin is almost certainly extinct"

The dam contributed to the functional extinction of the Baiji Yangtze river dolphin.

This is a Yangtze River Dolphin in China.

The Baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin, becomes functionally extinct.

Distribution of Yangtze River dolphins (baiji), China.

As Mark Carwardine explains: "The first expedition we tried to set up was the Yangtze River dolphin.

Yangtze River dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer)

A December 2006 survey found no members of Lipotidae (commonly known as the Yangtze River dolphin) and declared the species functionally extinct.

Does it really matter if the Yangtze river dolphin, or the kakapo, or the northern white rhino, or any other species live on only in scientists' notebooks?

The Baiji or Yangtze River Dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer)

In 2007 fears were expressed that China's Finless Porpoise, a native of the lake, might follow the baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin, into extinction.

These include the endangered Siberian Crane, the Yangtze river dolphin (baiji), and Yangtze sturgeon.

The thoroughfare in question is the Yangtze river, and the reincarnated princess is the Baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin.

But it is clear that if those efforts were suspended for a moment, the kakapos, the Yangtze river dolphins, the northern white rhinos and many others would vanish almost immediately.

Inside the reserve is the Tian'e-Zhou lake which was an intended sanctuary for the Baiji (Yangtze River Dolphin) and is currently holding 28 Finless Porpoises.

THE YANGTZE RIVER DOLPHIN (baiji)

The subject of the final programme was due to be the Yangtze River dolphin but sadly, Carwardine's photos from twenty years ago are now a poignant reminder of a species declared extinct in 2007.

Their story is one of the saddest, as two species, the Indus River dolphin and the Yangtze River dolphin (baiji), are on the edge of extinction, and their continued survival seems unlikely.

Some dolphin species face an uncertain future, especially some river dolphin species such as the Amazon river dolphin, and the Ganges and Yangtze river dolphin, which are critically or seriously endangered.

The series excludes the Rodrigues fruit bat, the Yangtze River Dolphin, which is "in all probability extinct", and the Juan Fernandez Fur Seal, which had proved embarrassingly easy for Adams and Carwardine to find.

"Witness to Extinction: How We Failed To Save The Yangtze River Dolphin", an account of the 2006 survey by Samuel Turvey, one of the survey participants, was published by Oxford University Press in autumn 2008.