The Government of Bangladesh recently declared three new wildlife sanctuaries for endangered freshwater dolphins in the world's largest mangrove ecosystem – the Sundarbans, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) whose conservation work helped pinpoint the locations of the protected areas.

KIEV, Ukraine, November 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Volodymyr Boreiko, a Ukrainian ecologist, came up with an idea to grant citizenship to dolphins. According to him, this will prevent the dolphins from extinction, largely caused by the brutal behavior of humans.

Finless porpoises may be more endangered than previously thought.

The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today that critically endangered alligators in China have a new chance for survival.

The Chinese government should keep potential polluters away from the Yangtze River by raising regulatory standards there, an official said Saturday. Chen Qinghua, a member of the 11th National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said Beijing ought to retool the industrial layout along the river and raise environmental standards, Xinhua reported. We must set quotas on and raise (the) threshold for potential polluting plants along the Yangtze River to wipe out pollution from the roots, Chen was quoted by the state-run news agency as saying.