Back in Brisbane
I am talking about Karl-Bertil Jonsson's Christmas Eve, translated by Rixstep. It's a tale of a postal worker influenced (perhaps a little bit for his own good) by Robin Hood. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I hope you do too. And a merry XMAS to you likewise.
The rare baiji dolphin which lives exclusively in the Yangtze, China's longest river, is believed to have gone extinct because of pollution.
A group of Chinese and foreign conservationists said they did not spot a single animal after 26 days on the river.
The last verified sighting of the fresh water dolphin species was in 2004.
That makes me so depressed that I am on the verge of tears. All gone. All gone. Thanks to the (literally) bloody Greap Leap Forward, and the Three Gorges Damned.
(Photo and text courtesly of Al-Jazeera.)
