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 ...

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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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 ...

The latest attempt to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise from being snagged in nets meant for the coveted totoaba fish may prove to be the most effective yet. But the way it’s being ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

They are shy and elusive. They are tinier than a dolphin. And they are disappearing fast. Despite heroic efforts, vaquita porpoises are dying at astounding rates in illegal fishing nets in their ...

AWI co-hosted an event to highlight the plight of the vaquita porpoise and the totoaba fish during the January meeting of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna ...