We may be facing a big battle, but attitudes are evolving, and the years ahead look promising too
Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise has an estimated population of 1000-1800When discovered in the 1950s, the South China tiger population was estimated to be 4000, by 1996 it was estimated to be only 30-80. Scientists consider the tiger to be"functionally extinct" as one has not been sighted for over 25 yearsThe Sumatran orangutan was once found across the island of Sumatra and even further south on Java.
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