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'Witness to Extinction' tells the story of the plight of the Yangtze River dolphin. It is both a celebration of a remarkable animal that once graced China's greatest river, and a personal, eyewitness account of the failures of policy and the struggle to get funds that led to the tragic demise of a species.

Chinese river dolphin. --- Extinct mammals. --- Extinct vertebrates --- Mammals --- Baiji --- Chinese lake dolphin --- Lipotes vexillifer --- White flag dolphin --- Yangtze River dolphin --- Lipotes --- Extinction (Biology)

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The historical development of tonnage, ship registration, classification societies and national and international law for flag State responsibility is recounted, along with the large increase in numbers of non-traditional flag States and classification societies over the past fifty years. The Law of the Sea Convention provides for a State to grant its nationality to ships, for those ships to be surveyed before registration, and for a flag State to effectively exercise its jurisdiction and control in administrative, technical and social matters over ships flying its flag. A State has the sovereign right to determine conditions for grant of its nationality and this can lead to derogation of flag State responsibility with implications for safety of ships. These issues are analysed and remedies proposed for effective flag State implementation of mandatory instruments.

Flags of convenience. --- Jurisdiction over ships at sea. --- Maritime law --- History. --- Flag of convenience --- Ships --- Ship transfers to foreign registry --- Freedom of the seas --- International law --- War, Maritime (International law) --- Law, Maritime --- Marine law --- Merchant marine --- Merchant ships --- Navigation --- Navigation laws --- Shipping --- Commercial law --- Law of the sea --- Registration and transfer --- Nationality --- Law and legislation --- Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law . --- Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space. --- Private international law. --- Conflict of laws. --- Law of the sea. --- International law. --- Choice of law --- Conflict of laws --- Intermunicipal law --- International law, Private --- International private law --- Private international law --- Law --- Legal polycentricity --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- High seas, Jurisdiction over --- Ocean --- Ocean law --- Sea, Law of the --- Territorial waters --- Civil law