Posts Tagged ‘china’
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The end of the Baiji river dolphins
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
A little over a year ago I blogged this angry post about the then “almost extinct” Baiji dolphins of the Yangtze river in China.
Today, I read this article on BBC News, which announced the results of a six-week survey by researchers who failed to find any remaining dolphins. They are now extinct. Aren’t we doing [...] -
Live Earth, a better world through music
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Live Earth is right around the corner, so I thought I should mention what it is all about in the unlikely case you haven’t heard of it or you’re not as informed about it. The event is described on the official website like so:
“Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 [...] -
Giant Panda Twins Born
Monday, December 25th, 2006
Mei Mei, a Giant Panda on loan from China at Japan’s Adventure World gave birth to twins. Breeding these magnificent animals in captivity is an extremely difficult and highly complicated chore. Often breeders have to try artificial insemination, as there’s only a few of these bamboo eating bears left and they are quite picky when [...]
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Noted News Today
Friday, October 20th, 2006
Rice presses China on human rights record
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has met with her Chinese counterpart - Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing on Friday, to discuss the issues of North Korea and Iran nuclear programs. In a press conference, both dignitaries said they brought up human rights concerns each country has regarding the other.
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The 17 Yangtze river dolphins
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Yes, there’s only 17 surviving members of the Yangtze river dolphin family that we know of. So, it had to come to that for zoologists to finally come to their senses and think “wow, there’s only 17 left? perhaps we should do something to save them”. How many years of college does it take to [...]
