Facing a declining population attempts to save the Yangtze finless porpoise range from fishing bans to raising public awareness and even using artificial breeding to learn how to protect the animals.

One porpoise, born in 2020 in captivity, offers a ray of hope because it is the first second-generation Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis ) that was born through an artificial breeding programme in Wuhan, Hubei province in central China.