Actually, the French news had a 5 minutes reportage about this issue. Serge
At 07:37 PM 8/16/2007, Madhusudan Katti wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2007, at 7:57 AM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: > >> Good point,I am on the marine mammal listserv and never heard a thing > >> about it. > >Perhaps because it was not a marine mammal, Malcolm? :-) > >The formal notice of the extinction of this dolphin was noted at >least in a corner of the blogsphere - on scienceblogs (http:// >www.scienceblogs.com/) where several bloggers wrote about it (often >lamenting the lack of media coverage), and it was featured on the >site's front page as the hot topic for several days. Even now, if you >go to scienceblogs and look under the "more hot topics" section, >you'll find "Dolphin Goes Extinct" listed from a week ago. Some of >the posts there might be worth reading. > >Madhu >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Madhusudan Katti >Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Biology >Department of Biology, M/S SB73 >California State University, Fresno >2555 E. San Ramon Ave. >Fresno, CA 93740-8034 > >559.278.2460 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~mkatti >http://reconciliationecology.blogspot.com/ >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the >humble reasoning of a single individual. >[Galileo Galilei] > > > > > > On Thu, August 16, 2007 4:07 am, William Silvert wrote: > >> I find it odd that with all the discussion of species loss on this > >> list, > >> no > >> mention has appeared of a major extinction of a charismatic > >> species, the > >> Yangtzee river dolphin. The loss of a large mammal seems to have > >> occurred > >> with just a small ripple in the news, and seems much less > >> noteworthy than > >> the birth of a giant panda. > >> > >> Bill Silvert > >> > > > > > > Malcolm L. McCallum > > Assistant Professor of Biology > > Editor Herpetological Conservationa and Biology > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
