Two Yangtze Finless Porpoises Make History With Wild Return After Captive Rescue

Two Yangtze Finless Porpoises Make History With Wild Return After Captive Rescue

Natural History Museum In an unprecedented breakthrough for endangered species conservation, Chinese biologists have pulled off a near-miraculous feat by successfully rescuing, rehabilitating, and reintroducing not one, but two Yangtze finless porpoises back into their ancestral river habitat. This critically endangered cetacean, a close relative of dolphins and whales, is clinging to survival in the Yangtze River, where fewer than 600 individua…