1. What’s Happening to the Pink Dolphins?
By Vanessa Chung 8J

2. About Pink Dolphins
Hong Kong’s Western harbour (usually north of Lantau Island) has about 120 pink dolphins (Chinese White Dolphins). However these dolphins are dying due to many reasons humans create.
These dolphins found in Hong Kong are isolated population from South Africa to Australia and is now in the coast of China. These dolphins has a unique colour: They’re born almost black then quickly turns light grey and afterwards slowly turns pink or white.
Reclamation
Over Fishing
Boat Traffic
Sewage
Dolphins Body
Males grow 8.4 feet and weigh 345 pounds.
Females grow 6.6 feet and weigh 217 pounds.
Lives for around 35 years

3. Reclamation Over Fishing
The construction of our airport a long time ago has killed a lot of dolphins, since it’s built at North Lantau where the dolphins live. More dolphins will be killed since Hong Kong reclaims a lot of land. The mud from the reclamation is dumped in the seabed and it does also destroy dolphins habitat.
Over Fishing
Dolphins eat small fishes and crabs in the sea. Pink dolphins has about 30 teeth. All of those teeth are in the front.
Hong Kong’s unregulated fishing fleet is fishing up nearly all of the dolphin’s food. This is not the only way of killing the dolphins. There were several dead dolphins which had been in the fishing net or tangled in the fishing net.

4. Sewage
Around 150,000 cubic meters of raw sewage (not treated), is thrown out to the western harbour every day. This is ruining the habitat of the every kind of dolphins which live there. People predicts that there’ll be cubic meters of raw sewage will be dumped in the sea every day by All of the toxic wastes such as cleaning fluids, bacteria and viruses can affect the dolphins directly.
Boat Traffic
Pink dolphins try to swim as far away from the boat as possible however, up to 70 vessels every hour, passes through areas where pink dolphins can be frequently found.

5. Conclusion
In conclusion, this power point shows the main reasons of why and how the pink dolphins are dying so quickly. Pink dolphins is one of Hong Kong speciality and that is why we should save them. There isn’t much we can do in the reclamation, sewage, etc. part however we can at least try and eat less fish and leave some fish for them to eat. There are also many other ways for us to save the pink dolphins however what you do is up to you.

6. Bibliography
Unknown, Chinese White Dolphin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 13/10/08
Abbie, Pink Dolphins, The Rainforest, 13/10/08
Unknown, Endangered Dolphin, Endangered Dolphins, 13/10/08
Unknown, Pink Dolphins, Animals and Nature on Squidoo, , 6/11/08
Hilda, Amazing Rainforest Animal Report, Pink Dolphin, 6/11/08
Mandy, Mandy’s Place: Pink Dolphins, Mandy’s Place Life is Sweet, 6/11/08
Unknown, Dolphins – Crystalinks, Crystalinks, 6/11/08
Unknown, frogview – The Ultimate Collection, Frogview, 6/11/08