The idea was that baiji would be bred in this semi-natural reserve and then these individuals would be used to repopulate the main river. But there was a delay between planning and practical action.

Obituary for the Baiji: ... The Baiji migrated from the Pacific to the Yangtze River 20,000 some years ago according to fossil records. There are four families of river dolphins found worldwide: ...

MAEBASHI -- Fossils found in east Japan's Gunma and Tochigi prefectures have been identified as of a new dolphin genus and species, and the ones in Gu ...

Chinese state media reports that scientists will continue to search for the baiji dolphin even after a 38-day search failed to produce any evidence of its existence in the Yangtze River. Xinhua ...

The ancestors of river dolphins such as the baiji go even further, with their optimum body size shrinking to just over two metres as they adapted for life in shallow coastlines, and eventually ...

Around 400 baiji were believed to be living in the Yangtze in the 1980s. The last full-fledged search, in 1997, yielded 13 confirmed sightings, and a fisherman claimed to have seen a baiji in 2004 ...