The baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), is a probably extinct species of freshwater dolphin native to the Yangtze river system in China. It is thought to be the first dolphin species driven to extinction due to the impact of humans.

2022年9月15日 · What happened to the baiji river dolphin? The baiji, Lipotes vexillifer, was a species of dolphin found exclusively in China's Yangtze River. It's sometimes also known as the white dolphin or Chinese river dolphin. Only a handful of …

The Yangtze River dolphin or baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) was an obligate river dolphin endemic to the middle-lower Yangtze River [Changjiang] drainage and the neighbouring Qiantang River in eastern China.

2016年10月11日 · Amateur conservationists say they may have seen a Yangtze river dolphin in China. Here's why you should be skeptical. Ten years after it was declared functionally extinct, amateur...

2023年6月3日 · The Yangtze River dolphin, also known as the baiji dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), was a white, fresh-water dolphin native to the Yangtze River and Qiantang River in China as recently as the 1990s. The baiji is best known for its squinty eyes …

Baijis (Scientific name: Lipotes vexillifer) are a freshwater dolphin species found in China. They are the rarest and most endangered of all whale, porpoise of dolphin species. They are now regarded as functionally extinct. They live on a 1,000-mile stretch of the Yangtze river between the mouth of the river and the Three Gorges.

The Chinese river dolphin, or baiji, holds the unenviable record of being the first dolphin species driven to extinction by human beings. The mighty Yangtze River in China was the baiji’s home for 20 million years. It took less than 50 years for humans to wipe them out.

The Baiji or Chinese River dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) is endemic to the Yangtze River in China, but it is now considered extinct as result of human activities

The freshwater dolphin native to the Yangtze river system in China is thought to be the first species of dolphin to be driven to extinction due to human impact.

The Chinese river dolphin or baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), which might be the most endangered cetacean in the world, lives only in the mainstream of the middle and lower reaches of the Changjiang (Yangtze River), an overall distance of about 1600 kilometers.