Environment
Hope for the iconic Yangtze sturgeon (cartoon)
This post was originally published on this site.
After losing two of the Yangtze River’s native wildlife icons — the baiji (a river dolphin) and the Chinese paddlefish — to dams and overfishing, and almost losing the Yangtze sturgeon, China seems to be taking measures to correct the course. The demolition of dams along the Chishui He, a major tributary of the Yangtze River, could just be the sturgeon’s ‘Great Leap Forward.’This article was originally published on Mongabay
