To help China address these challenges, the World Bank approved a $150 million loan in 2019 for the Forest Ecosystem Improvement in the Upper Reaches of Yangtze River Basin Program. Implemented in ...

Two Yangtze finless porpoises have been returned to the wild for the very first time, offering fresh hope for this deeply ...

Yangtze finless porpoises only live in the middle-lower Yangtze River basin in eastern China ... Extinction of the finless porpoise would throw the ecosystem out of balance, Liu explained.

The newly released action plan targets a 40 percent completion rate for the development of beautiful rivers and lakes by 2027, significant progress by 2030, and full completion by 2035.

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment on Wednesday unveiled an action plan to protect and restore rivers and lakes across ...

The Yangtze finless porpoise — the world’s only freshwater porpoise — has faced extreme declines in numbers in the past four decades. With fewer than 1,300 individuals left in the wild, scientists in ...

After reading more about the animal, I learned that it is an 'indicator species', whose health has far-reaching importance for the Yangtze River's ecosystem and even beyond ... volunteers across the ...

asiaeorientalis) is unique to the Yangtze River ecosystem. Unlike its marine relatives ... have been found dead in Dongting Lake, the flood basin of the river in central Hunan Province, since March 3.