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Monday, 18 July 2011

DOLPHIN

Hi humans, animals and aliens!!!(anything living)
Dolphins- Yeah
It is summer and i decided to talk more about it but still help the kingdome of nature at the same time. It is hot and sunny in some countries(I wish i was one of the people living there) and some like me live in cold countries :(. But there is one good thing about Ireland dolphins live in it's ocean. Dolphins are not my favourite animals but I love them. We should all respect them too. We  know not to go to marine parks as I said in my other post. We can also donate money for them, don't go to close to them when your on a boat and don't litter at the sea.
Here are facts about a crititally endangered dolphin.My Favourite!
                               Baiji 鱀豚

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Eutheria
Order: Cetacea
Suborder: Odontoceti
Superfamily: Platanistoidea
Family: Lipotidae
Zhou, Qian & Li, 1978
Genus: Lipotes
Miller, 1918
Species: L. vexillifer
Binomial name
Lipotes vexillifer
Miller, 1918


 
The Baiji (Chinese: ; pinyin: About this sound báijìtún ) (Lipotes vexillifer, Lipotes meaning "left behind", vexillifer "flag bearer") was a freshwater dolphin found only in the Yangtze River in China. Nicknamed "Goddess of the Yangtze" (simplified Chinese: 长江女神; traditional Chinese: 長江女神; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng nǚshén) in China, the dolphin was also called Chinese River Dolphin, Yangtze River Dolphin, Whitefin Dolphin and Yangtze Dolphin. It is not to be confused with the Chinese White Dolphin.
The Baiji population declined drastically in recent decades as China industrialized and made heavy use of the river for fishing, transportation, and hydroelectricity. Efforts were made to conserve the species, but a late 2006 expedition failed to find any Baiji in the river. Organizers declared the Baiji "functionally extinct",which would make it the first aquatic mammal species to become extinct since the demise of the Japanese Sea Lion and the Caribbean Monk Seal in the 1950s. It would also be the first recorded extinction of a well-studied cetacean species (it is unclear if some previously extinct varieties were species or subspecies) to be directly attributable to human influence.
In August 2007, Zeng Yujiang reportedly videotaped a large white animal swimming in the Yangtze.Although Wang Kexiong of the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has tentatively confirmed that the animal on the video is probably a baiji, the presence of only one or a few animals, particularly of advanced age, is not enough to save a functionally extinct species from true extinction. The last known living baiji was Qi Qi (淇淇), which died in 2002.


list of conversation actions :1 Land/water protection
                                     1.1 Site/area protection
                                      1.2 Resource & habitat protection
                                         2 Land/water management
                                       2.1 Site/area management
                                          3 Species management
                                        3.2 Species recovery
                                       3.4 Ex-situ conservation
                                     3.4.1 Captive breeding/artificial propagation
                                         4 Education & awareness
                                        4.2 Training
                                        4.3 Awareness & communications
                                            5 Law & policy
                                         5.4 Compliance and enforcement
                                      5.4.2 National level
                                      5.4.3 Sub-national level
threats                                            6 Livelihood, economic & other incentives
                                          6.1 Linked enterprises & livelihood alternatives

1 Residential & commercial development
1.1 Housing & urban areas
1.2 Commercial & industrial areas
2 Agriculture & aquaculture
2.1 Annual & perennial non-timber crops
2.1.3 Agro-industry farming
4 Transportation & service corridors
4.3 Shipping lanes
5 Biological resource use
5.4 Fishing & harvesting aquatic resources
5.4.1 Intentional use: (subsistence/small scale)
5.4.4 Unintentional effects: (large scale)
7 Natural system modifications
7.2 Dams & water management/use
7.2.11 Dams (size unknown)
8 Invasive & other problematic species & genes
8.2 Problematic native species
9 Pollution
9.1 Domestic & urban waste water
9.1.3 Type Unknown/Unrecorded
9.2 Industrial & military effluents
9.2.3 Type Unknown/Unrecorded
9.3 Agricultural & forestry effluents
9.3.2 Soil erosion, sedimentation
9.3.4 Type Unknown/Unrecorded
9.6 Excess energy
9.6.3 Noise pollution 

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