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Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct

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Re: Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct

#11

What was wrong with the better original title "The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct"

Perhaps because that title completely omits any form of attribution, which as the article suggests, is largely because of the Gezhouba Dam which completely cut paddlefish off from their only spawning grounds.

Why would you want to omit that part?

That said, this title is a poor attempt at communication.

Re: Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct

#12

What was wrong with the better original title "The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct"

Perhaps because that title completely omits any form of attribution, which as the article suggests, is largely because of the Gezhouba Dam which completely cut paddlefish off from their only spawning grounds. Why would you want to omit that part? That said, this title is a poor attempt at communication.

I thought the guide was to use the original title

Re: Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct

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Serious question here - not starting a flamewar. Are there any real organizations in China with power that protect the ecosystem and animals there? From an outsider it seems like they just build whatever they want without any concern for the environment they live in which ultimately will do significant damage to their own human population after the environment collapses and can't support them.

The whole article is talking about China attempts to preserve endangered fish species.

It mostly talking about how in the 80 and 90s they didn't do those preservation research when building dams.

The article also talks that its not only happening in China these old paddlefish species are endangered all over the globe.

Re: Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct

#19

> Yangtze dam separates Paddlefish, largest, from spawn, now extinct What does this mean?

We’ve found an instance where a semicolon would be clarifying:

> Yangtze dam separated Paddlefish, largest (fish), from spawn; now extinct.

Re: Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct

#20

What was wrong with the better original title "The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct"

Perhaps because that title completely omits any form of attribution, which as the article suggests, is largely because of the Gezhouba Dam which completely cut paddlefish off from their only spawning grounds. Why would you want to omit that part? That said, this title is a poor attempt at communication.

Well now you have a title that's, to me, incomprehensible
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