Vaquita

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  Vaquita On The Brink: Population Plummets In Mexico's Gulf

  Despite their elusive nature making precise population estimates difficult, the absence of calves in recent surveys highlights their critical situation.

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  Genome Study Provides Important Insight on Endangered Vaquita Native to Mexico's Gulf of California

  Genetic Assessment has provided new hope to save small tropical porpoise native to Mexico's Gulf of California with its population dwindling to about 10. Computational simulations performed by the researchers to predict extinction risk showed that vaquitas have a high chance of rebounding if fishing gillnets are completely eliminated from their hab...

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  Mexico Scrambles To Save World's Smallest Porpoise

  Mexican authorities and scientists are scrambling to save the world's smallest porpoise, the vaquita marina, from extinction, capturing illegal "ghost" fishing nets while hoping to make specimens reproduce in captivity.

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  Mexico Bans Gillnets To Protect Endangered Porpoise

  Mexico said it will ban the use of gillnets for shrimp fishing in an area of the northern Gulf of California that is the habitat for the endangered vaquita marina porpoise.

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  World's Smallest Porpoise Nearer Extinction In Mexico

  Environmentalists warned on Friday that Mexico's vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise, was close to extinction as the government reported that only 60 were now left.

• China Bladder Trade Sending Porpoise to Extinction

  An environmental panel says fewer than 100 of Mexico's vaquita marina porpoises are left and they are in imminent danger of extinction.