I recognized immediately that it belonged to the vaquita, a species of porpoise found only in the ... increased as the totoaba itself has become endangered. Baja fishermen go after the totoaba ...

This young female vaquita, known as V01F, was captured during the VaquitaCPR mission, an emergency effort to place some of the endangered cetaceans in protected seapens. VaquitaCPR V01F appeared ...

NEW DELHI— The UNESCO World Heritage Committee renewed its call today for urgent action to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoise in Mexico. With merely six to eight individuals estimated ...

A small porpoise, known as a vaquita, can only be found in the wild at the northern end of the Gulf of California. Because there are so few left, it's been called the world's "most endangered ...

Fewer than 10 vaquita porpoises remain in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California ... And yet, in early March, the Standing Committee for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild ...

GENEVA— The Secretariat to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora today announced trade sanctions against Mexico for its failure to control illegal fishing ...

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Statement in Response to MOU Signed by Mexican Government, Leonardo DiCaprio and Carlos Slim to Protect Vaquita Porpoise The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) cautiously welcomes the Memorandum of ...

Only found in the Gulf of California, the marine mammal is one of the most endangered with less ... to Rescue the Whale Of all the porpoises, the vaquita is perhaps one of the least well-known.

Americans celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Endangered ... inbox each morning. The vaquita is the rarest animal in the world and the rarest marine mammal. These porpoises swim in the Gulf ...

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 ...

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