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Title    Conservationists Fear Decline of Hong Kong's Pink Dolphin
Date    Monday November 30 2015, @11:10PM
Author    cmn32480
Topic   
from the whale-you-stop-harassing-the-dolphins? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/11/29/236243

shortscreen writes:

The Chinese white dolphin, also known as the pink dolphin, has long been a popular tourist attraction in Hong Kong. However, Samuel Hung, chairman of the Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society believes that overfishing, pollution, and water traffic are driving the animals away.

Hung reports that only 60 dolphins now remain in the area, compared to 158 in 2003. Disruption of dolphin habitats by the ongoing construction of a 50km bridge to Macau, combined with future plans for construction of a third runway at Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport, could make the dolphins even more scarce.

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  1. "shortscreen" - https://soylentnews.org/~shortscreen/
  2. "The Chinese white dolphin" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_white_dolphin
  3. "driving the animals away." - http://gulfnews.com/news/asia/china/hong-kong-s-pink-dolphins-a-vanishing-breed-1.1628173
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=10867
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