There are six porpoise species all around the world ... perhaps because of criminal influence on the totoaba trade. The vaquita’s newly visible champions on social media, including the actor ...

These consultations specifically address Mexico’s USMCA obligations related to the protection of the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, the prevention of illegal fishing, and the trafficking of ...

MEXICO CITY — Fewer than 10 vaquitas, the world’s smallest porpoise ... Today, the vaquita is listed as critically endangered ...

Totoaba can grow up to six feet in length and weigh 220 ... Statement in Response to MOU Signed by Mexican Government, Leonardo DiCaprio and Carlos Slim to Protect Vaquita Porpoise The Animal Welfare ...

AWI co-hosted an event to highlight the plight of the vaquita porpoise and the totoaba fish during the January meeting of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna ...

Totoaba swim bladders are illegally exported ... This would give Mexico more funding for vaquita protection, along with international assistance for this rarest of porpoises. In 2017 the UNESCO World ...

so totoaba fishing continues—as do the deaths of vaquitas as bycatch. In 2005 Mexico’s government made part of the gulf a vaquita refuge. But the population kept falling—from more than 200 ...

This species, known as the world's smallest porpoise and endemic ... to address the illegal totoaba trade. Without these urgent measures, the extinction of the vaquita marina could become an ...

“We are beyond the eleventh hour in addressing the illegal totoaba trade and resulting bycatch of the vaquita porpoise in gillnets. Both species are critically endangered – with vaquita numbering less ...

Despite heroic efforts, vaquita porpoises are dying at astounding rates in illegal ... The illegal gillnets killing vaquita are used to catch another endangered species, the totoaba. The fish's dried ...

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Fewer than 10 vaquitas remain. The world’s tiniest cetacean is killed as by-catch in gillnets of poachers seeking another endangered species – the totoaba fish – for its swim bladder ...