Off the wire
• China treasury bond futures close higher Wednesday  • Foreign exchange rates in India  • China Hushen 300 index futures close higher Wednesday  • Tokyo stocks close higher as yen's retreat lifts exporters  • Thailand's Kasikornbank taps into Cambodia's banking market  • Vietnam strives to reduce congestion at overloaded int'l airport  • Top-ranked Lee may quit Badminton Association of Malaysia  • EU delegation in Afghanistan condemns Kabul terrorist attack  • Chinese shares close higher Wednesday  • Thailand pays compensation to workers left jobless by flooding  
You are here: 　 Home

Search continues to save injured finless porpoise

Xinhua, February 8, 2017 Adjust font size:

Search efforts are underway to save an injured finless porpoise, an endangered mammal similar to the dolphin, in the Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake.

On Tuesday, hydrobiology experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences joined the search team consisting of volunteers and fisheries staff of east China's Jiangxi Province.

Through long-focus lens, several volunteers discovered a large fishhook on the back of the porpoise, but it disappeared before they could help.

"We're very worried. If the wound festers, the finless porpoise may die," said volunteer Yu Huigong.

Jiangxi Provincial Fishery Department sent the picture of the porpoise to its nine subdivisions, asking them to strengthen monitoring.

"Three days have passed, but we failed to find it. Our search will continue," said Zhan Shupin, a department employee.

Rarer than China's giant panda, the finless porpoise now teeters on the brink of extinction with a population of around 1,000. About 450 live in the Poyang Lake. Endi