Beijing: A rare freshwater dolphin unique to China’s Yangtze River is almost certainly extinct, a Swiss conservationist said after failing to spot a single animal on an expedition which ended on Wednesday.

It lived in the Yangtze river for millions of years and was revered by the Chinese as the "goddess" of the mighty river. But now scientists believe that the baiji, a white, freshwater dolphin, is extinct.

The rare Chinese river dolphin has gone extinct, according to scientists who could not find a single one of the animals during a six-week search on China’s Yangtze River.

Beijing: China’s Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydropower project in the world, has opened its floodgates to ease water shortages not seen along the Yangtze River since the Qing Dynasty, state media said on Thursday.

Three Gorges dam, Yichang: Traffic on the southern track of the dual-track ship lock on the Three Gorges Dam resumed on Saturday after a four-month project to raise the lock bed.

Beijing: China’s National Audit Office (CNAO) has found that 272 million yuan (34.8 million U.S. dollars) of the funds allocated to the resettlement of residents displaced by the Three Gorges Dam project in 2004 and 2005 have been misappropriated by local authorities.

by Li Xinran, Shanghai Daily January 27, 2007 China’s auditing watchdog revealed that some local authorities have misappropriated funds raised for relocating and aiding Three Gorges migrants, Xinhua news agency reported. In […]

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