PHOTOS: San Diego researchers scan rare skeleton of world’s smallest endangered porpoise
The San Diego Natural History Museum and SeaWorld San Diego have partnered with researchers at the Florida Atlantic ...
Digitizing hope: Collaboration helps preserve species on brink of extinction with 3D imaging lab
The vaquita, which means "little cow" in Spanish, is the world's smallest porpoise and most endangered marine mammal. They ...
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CITES’ Last Chance to Save Vaquita Porpoise
Scientists recently announced that as few as 10 vaquita porpoises are estimated to survive in the world ― a direct result of rampant and uncontrolled illegal fishing for totoaba, which is poached for ...
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Vaquita: World's most endangered sea mammal 'not doomed'
The vaquita porpoise is teetering on the brink of extinction, but scientists say DNA tests show the population is still genetically viable. The tiny silvery porpoise lives only in Mexico's Gulf of ...
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Mexico team up to save the cutest little porpoise ever
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The Vaquita Is A Tiny Porpoise, And It's Actually The World's Rarest Mammal And The World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal
That mammal is the vaquita, a small porpoise that may look similar to a dolphin but is much less common in the wild. The vaquita is a teeny porpoise species found in the upper Gulf of California ...
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USMCA Council to Investigate Mexico’s Failure to Protect the Vaquita Porpoise
MONTREAL— After a two-year delay, the Council of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement finally voted today to investigate Mexico’s failure to protect its critically endangered and endemic vaquita ...
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The ‘little cow’ of the sea nears extinction
This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shortly after scientists discovered the species in 1950, they realized it was in trouble. Vaquitas were regularly ...
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Vaquita’s Fate Hinges on End to Illegal Fishing
Fewer than 10 vaquita porpoises remain in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California. Yet, calves were observed during a 2021 survey, and new evidence, published in Science, indicates that the vaquita’s ...
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Vaquita porpoise: Dolphins deployed to save rare species
Mexico's government says it plans to use dolphins trained by the US Navy to try to save the world's most endangered marine species, the vaquita porpoise. Environment Minister Rafael Pacchiano said ...
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Saving the Vaquita: Mexico Acts, but Is It Enough?
In August 2014, scientists estimated that fewer than 100 vaquita porpoises remain in the wild—all in the Upper Gulf—and warned that if vaquita bycatch and a growing illegal fishery for totoaba (a ...
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Mexican government claims it has completed goals for protecting endangered vaquita and totoaba
The Mexican government has completed the objectives of a 2023 action plan created to help protected the critically endangered ...