Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. The critically endangered ...

After decades of seemingly irreversible decline, results from the latest census conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs show that the population of critically endangered ...

The Yangtze finless porpoise is both charming and intelligent. It even appears to have a permanent smile on its face. Unfortunately, the porpoise, which is native to China, is critically endangered ...

For at least 1,400 years, poets in China have penned pieces about the Yangtze River’s sights and sounds. Now, scientists are using those artworks to reconstruct an animal’s past. “When we do ...

A research expedition underway on the Yangtze is looking to discover how many of the world's only freshwater finless porpoises can be found in the river - and how to save the remaining population from ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 years ...

Ancient Chinese poems provided insights into the decline of the critically endangered Yangtze River's finless porpoise. A team of scientists analyzed over 700 poems dating back to 618 CE to trace how ...