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  2. Changjiang Plain evergreen forests - Wikipedia

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    The Yangtze River Plain stretches 1,000 km from the Three Gorges to the sea. The terrain is mostly flat or low alluvial hills, with numerous shallow lakes. Large lakes include Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, and Dongting Lake which was formerly the largest but has seen significant conversion to farmland over the years.

  3. Yangtze - Wikipedia

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    The Yangtze flows through a wide array of ecosystems and is habitat to several endemic and threatened species, including the Chinese alligator, the narrow-ridged finless porpoise, and also was the home of the now extinct Yangtze river dolphin (or baiji) and Chinese paddlefish, as well as the Yangtze sturgeon, which is extinct in the wild.

  4. Oncomelania hupensis - Wikipedia

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    Oncomelania hupensis nosophora. Oncomelania hupensis chiui (Habe & Miyazaki, 1962)—in Taiwan [3]; Oncomelania hupensis hupensis (Gredler, 1881)—in China. [3] It is the most widely distributed subspecies of Oncomelania hupensis and lives primarily at low altitude but a few populations live in hilly areas in the drainage area of the Yangtze River in mainland China.

  5. Yangtze finless porpoise - Wikipedia

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    The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis) is a species of toothed whale in the family Phocoenidae, the porpoise family.It is endemic to the Yangtze River in China, making it the country's only known freshwater cetacean following the possible extinction of the baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), a freshwater dolphin also native to the Yangtze. [3]

  6. Tian-e-Zhou Oxbow Nature Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The Tian-e-Zhou Oxbow Nature Reserve is an area of wetland in the Yangtze basin near Shishou, Hubei province, People's Republic of China.Inside the reserve is the Tian'e-Zhou lake which was an intended sanctuary for the baiji (Yangtze river dolphin) and is currently holding 28 finless porpoises.

  7. How Jimmy Carter became the face of Habitat for Humanity - AOL

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    Rosalynn Carter passes nails to her husband, former president Jimmy Carter, as the couple joins some 1,500 fellow volunteers in Memphis to build 19 new homes for a Habitat for Humanity project ...

  8. Sanjiangyuan - Wikipedia

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    'Source of Three Rivers'), is an area of the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai province, China which contains the headwaters of three great rivers of Asia: the Yellow, the Yangtze, and the Mekong. Parts of the area were protected as the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve (SNNR), also called the Three Rivers Nature Reserve. The reserve consisted of ...

  9. Jimmy Carter's legacy lives on through Habitat for Humanity ...

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    Rhode Island-based builder and designer Kenneth Young, 66, first began volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in the 1990s. After his first "Carter build" in 1995 in Watts, California, a ...