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Photo by @Justin.Jin / A finless porpoise swims in the oxbow in Tian-e-Zhou, a reserve for breeding the endangered animal in the connected Yangtze River. Porpoises who were brought to the reserve in 1990 are now thriving. The original population of five animals has grown to nearly 80, close to the oxbow’s capacity of 100.

In 1991 China counted around 2,500 finless porpoises in the country's greatest river. Around 1,000 now remain, a population smaller than that of the giant panda, according to the World Wildlife Fund @world_wildlife. This porpoise is now so critically endangered that, unless there is direct intervention, the Yangtze’s last surviving aquatic mammal will disappear forever, says WWF.

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