Ever Smiling Yangtze Finless Porpoise

Yangtze finless porpoise is a mammal living in the longest Asian river The Yangtze River. This porpoise was officially declared to the world in the year 1899. It belongs to phocaenoides family and ***Neophocaena phocaenoides ***is its biological name. It was abundantly found in the costal Asian waters but today, it is one of the critically endangered species with only about 1000 of them living.

Greedy human activities like polluting the Yangtze River by releasing harmful industrial chemical waste in to the water has led to a large deterioration in the population of Yangtze finless porpoise.

Ever Smiling Yangtze Finless Porpoise

The change in fishing activities has led to wide fishing and killing of these species. The encounter with fishing gears killed these animals.

In some parts of Japan these finless porpoise are consumed. So they were killed for human consumption too.

Habitat destruction and polluting the waters also led to wide range of death of marine animals.

So all these human habits resulted in decline of the finless porpoise species and made it an endangered species.

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