At the end of our meeting they said, “The residents in the area gain some profit—that’s natural—but we have more profound plans, that is to protect the dolphin as a species, not to let it become extinct in our generation. Its protection is our duty. As we know that only two hundred pieces of this animal survive, it may go extinct if we don’t take measures to prevent it, and if that happens we will feel guilty for our descendants and later generations.” We left the room feeling, for the first time in China, uplifted. It seemed that, for all the stilted and awkward formality of the meeting, we
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