A sad day and a clear demonstration of the savagery and destructiveness of the human species!
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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A Chinese freshwater dolphin has been declared extinct after desperate efforts to rescue it came too late.
A One British zoologist today described the loss of the Yangtze River dolphin as a “shocking tragedy”.
It is the first official extinction of a large vertebrate for more than 50 years.
Experts say human activity killed off the white long-beaked dolphin, which grew to eight feet weighed up to 500 pounds.
The animal is the first cetacean, the group of mammals that includes dolphins, whales and porpoises, to vanish from Earth as a direct result of human influence.
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