I recognized immediately that it belonged to the vaquita, a species of porpoise found only in the northern reaches of the Gulf of California. Its eyes are airbrushed in shadows, ringed by a white ...

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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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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WASHINGTON— The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that it will ban imports of Mexican shrimp and other seafood caught in the habitat of the critically endangered vaquita porpoise.

While some focus on patrols of the vaquita habitat ... according to the Porpoise Conservation Society, a Canadian ...

The legality of vaquita marina sightseeing tourism is a tangled web of legal restrictions, ecological concerns, and ethical dilemmas. This species, known as the world's smallest porpoise and ...

Take our vaquita quiz today. The vaquita’s habitat in the upper Gulf of California is full of abandoned or lost nets which are killing not only this small porpoise but also species like turtles or ...

CEC Secretariat recommends a factual record on the vaquita porpoise under US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA/CUSMA, Chapter 24) Commission for Environmental Cooperation Keywords ...

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 ...