Illegal fish bladder trade could sound the death knell for the last 10 vaquita porpoises
A thriving online illegal trade in the swim bladders of endangered totoaba fish is helping to drive the vaquita porpoise to the brink of extinction
Tag: gulf-of-california
EIA joins call for trade sanctions against Mexico to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise
Sanctions should be put in place to pressure Mexico to save the vaquita porpoise, whose population is estimated to have dwindled to just 10 remaining animals
With extinction looming, it’s CITES’s last chance to save the vaquita porpoise
Governments from around the world meet in Geneva this week for one of the most important dates in the conservation calendar – and perhaps the last chance to save the world’s most threatened marine mammal
Staring down the barrel of extinction – just 10 vaquita porpoises estimated to remain
Scientists have announced that only 10 vaquita porpoises are estimated to survive in the world – virtually assuring the animal’s extinction without bold and immediate action.
If we’re serious about saving it, actions not platitudes are vital on Save Vaquita Day
As we mark Save Vaquita Day, it’s a terrible truth that with each passing day the clock counts down ever-closer to the extinction of the world’s most threatened marine mammal – estimates vary but the credible consensus is that fewer than 30 of these tiny porpoises may remain in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico
Bleak outlook for the vaquita as operation starts to capture them in the wild
With fewer than 30 remaining, the plight of the vaquita porpoise in the Gulf of California is deemed so desperate that an operation has begun to capture the surviving creatures and put them in secure pens – but the Vaquita Conservation, Protection and Recovery effort is a drastic move with a limited chance of success