Tears for the ‘river pig’

Increasing pollution of the Yangtze River and the threat this poses to the finless porpoise is also a warning for a third of China’s population that depends on these waters.

GROWING up in Huanggang, a city by the Yangtze River in Central China’s Hubei province, He Dan had heard from elderly fishermen about a rare fish, dubbed the “river pig” by locals.