Public welfare proposal

Finless porpoise is no longer alone because of your participation.

In 1990:3600，in 2006:1800，in2012:1045，in2018:1012, those numbers of living Yangtze finless porpoises show that they are declining rapidly in recent 30 years.

Porpoises extinction rate around Dongting Lake is the fastest in the entire Yangtze River basin. Without good protection, Yangtze finless porpoises will be completely extinct in the next 10-15 years.

Pengchen Li and ZhixuanFeng, students in Changjun International Department, were determined to participate in the protection of finless porpoises.

With the initiative of Pengchen Li and ZhixuanFeng, OuyangYinle, ShumanQi, HaixinPeng, YangMa, Zhonglin Li,and LinxuanLi, other students also joined in. They are jointly setting up a finless porpoises protection team soon.

The threat to the Yangtze River porpoises mainly comes from the influence of human activities. The high density of the Yangtze River, the noise of the busy shipping vessels and their propellers has become the biggest threat to porpoises. Furthermore, the influence of overfishing and illegal fishing, water pollution and construction of some water conservation facilities in Dongting Lake District are also factors for the decrease of porpoises. Up to now, a large number of stationary nets which is used in the lake area occupy a large number of surface water conservation facilities during dry season, and the influence of human activities is still intensified, which also makes the wild population of finless porpoises in the Yangtze river drop sharply.

Members of the public welfare team shared and discussed the current situation of the protection of finless porpoises and how to carry out the protection activities of the finless porpoises in the future.

At present, the porpoise public welfare group has raised the first batch of donations of 11156.97 Yuan to Poyang Lake leading Porpoise protection organization for the porpoise protection of the Lake daily Patrol.

Protect the porpoise, we've been in action! We hope those who read this article can also participate in the porpoise protection.

Proposal

The protection of the Yangtze finless porpoises is not only a responsibility of governors and scientists,  it is a  responsibility of the whole society.

As the saying goes, individually we are weak , like a single twig but as a bundle we form a mighty faggot .We hope that more people can participate in the action of protecting finless porpoises after our publicity. The wide participation of the whole society would guarantee the success of the protection.

Eat fewer or Don’t eat the fish in Yangtze river.  Take action to support a Yangtze river fishing ban,

Report illegal fishing,

Participate more in the environmental impact assessment of construction projects,

Give voice to the public.

Protect the natural environment and reduce the generation of non-degradable waste.

Timely release relevant information and encourage the community to participate in.

Dear students, let's protect "Smile of the Yangtze River" and be responsible, committed  students!

Extended Reading:

Yangtze river finless porpoise is an ancient aquatic mammal, which has been living in the earth for 25 million years and known as the Yangtze river ecology of living fossils and water pandas.The porpoise has a round head, chubby body which usually is lead-gray or grayish-white and black small eyes. Because porpoises are born with a smiling face, they are also known as smiling fairy.The finless porpoise is the only sub-species that lives entirely in fresh water. It is distributed in the main and partial tributaries of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river, as well as Dongting lake and Boyang lake. It is the only remaining mammal in the Yangtze river after the extinction of the baiqi dolphin. Their body length is generally around 1.2 meters, up to 1.9 meters and their life span is about 20 years.