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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
International efforts to save the vaquita, the world’s most endangered marine mammal, took a step in the wrong direction last week when the Mexican Government announced it is considering legalising the trade in totoaba fish
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
The presidents of Mexico and China, Enrique Peña Nieto and Xi Jinping, reiterated their commitment and support to international efforts to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise
Today, on UN World Oceans Day, there is a ray of hope for the fast-disappearing vaquita, the world’s smallest and most endangered cetacean that is found only in the upper Gulf of California