A highly-endangered freshwater dolphin in China is under threat from lingering drought as the water level in the Yangtze river keeps dropping.

The drought in central China, lasting for about 200 days, has lowered the water level to 27.38 meters in the Swan Island National Nature Reserve in Shishou City in Hubei Province, said Wang Ding, a dolphin expert at the Hydrobiology Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

"The level is 3 meters lower than last year, the lowest level over the past decades. Finless porpoises cannot survive if the level continues to drop," Wang said.

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