The Independent - London, January 19th, 2007
Human encroachment, pollution, overfishing and dam-building have killed one third of fish species in the Yellow River, China's second- longest waterway. Its increasingly desperate plight is also threatening economic growth.
The mighty Yellow River once made its away along 3,395 miles through nine provinces, supplying water to more than 150 million people and watering 15 per cent of China's scarce agricultural land.
Where once the river teemed with many different types of fish, it now is a graveyard. "The Yellow River used to be host to more than 150 species of fish, but a third of them are n...
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