Farewell To The Yangtze River Dolphin

[Ci Celli Ddu]

Another species bites the dust:


Rare river dolphin 'now extinct'
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6935343.stm)

:sad:

[deviadah]

If were lucky they've just gone into space like in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy...

http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/images/Baiji-StLea_BOF_Steven_Leatherwood.jpg (http://www.wspa-international.org/)

But I doubt it...

What a shame!

http://www.wcl.org.uk/images/WSPA_OrangeBlack.gif (http://www.wspa-international.org/)

[m1thr0s]

A Holocene Extinction Event (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction_event)???

I can't believe they actually have a name for this shit...not that it tells us what to do about it...

m1thr0s

[Ci Celli Ddu]

It would seem that this species is not quite extinct (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6969226.stm) after all.

[m1thr0s]

In the 1950s there were thousands of Yangtze River dolphins, but numbers have declined drastically due to industrial pollution, heavy river traffic and over-fishing.
A survey by researchers in 1997 found only 13.
ok, well...that's depressing...

you know...I really hate to jump the fucking gun and all of that but we're really kind of screwed here...

it's the speed of all of this more than anything else...people can't respond fast enough to keep up with it at this point...

Summary Statistics for Globally Threatened Species (2006 *Red List*) (http://www.iucnredlist.org/info/stats)

the numbers are staggering...extinction rates pushing 1000 times the worst ever seen in the entire fossil record...

m1thr0s

[deviadah]

Well we have reached the end of an era. Human Beings only really changed their ways when death, plauge and horror is staring them straight into their faces. There is a nice line said by the Merlin charachter in the fim Excalibur:
"It is the doom of men that they forget!"