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• 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. Biodiversity 100: actions for the Americas
• Five river dolphin species and 34 oceanic species have been identified, including the orca and melon-headed and pilot whales.
• Port River dolphins 'scalded' A MYSTERIOUS skin "affliction" is eating away the flanks of two Port River's dolphins - Wave and her calf Tallula - and experts fear it was caused by hot water or chemicals. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
• No one knows whether river dolphins were once more abundant or whether their numbers have always been low because of their restrictive and specialised habitat.
• Like the Indus River dolphin, boto are also sought after by wealthy institutions in developed countries.
• The former group also gave rise to various endemic lines of river dolphins.
• In 1972 the Government of Sind Province declared the river dolphin protected by law and prohibited its killing and trapping.
• The site protects the largest array of electric fish in the world and key threatened species such as the giant arapaima fish, Amazonian manatee, black caiman and two species of river dolphin. Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil
• Then a couple more to the left, and more to the right, before I finally realised that I was at the centre of a pod of Irrawaddy river dolphins, one of the rarest species on the planet.
• The greatest threats to marine mammals are being caught in fishing nets or being struck by shipping vessels, although for the Yangtze river dolphin, pollution is a major contributor.