There are only 10 or less of this little porpoise species left in the world. What can be done to save the vaquita?

“This designation is a crucial step toward saving the last surviving vaquita porpoises from deadly fishing nets, but Mexico still has to act,” said Alejandro Olivera, the Center’s Mexico ...

Their primary threat is entanglement in fishing gear, including in nets set for the totoaba ... This would give Mexico more funding for vaquita protection, along with international assistance for this ...

The vaquita porpoise is the smallest and most vulnerable cetacean ... This is mainly due to the use of gill nets for shrimp and fish where the vaquita gets caught in and dies by asphyxia. The main ...

Statement in Response to MOU Signed by Mexican Government, Leonardo DiCaprio and Carlos Slim to Protect Vaquita Porpoise ... and abandoned nets retrieved and the significant numbers of dead animals ...

Fewer than 10 vaquitas, the world’s smallest porpoise, survive in the wild today, experts say. Illegal fishing has decimated ...

In May, scientists conducted a survey in the Upper Gulf of California, looking for the world’s most endangered cetacean: the vaquita ... this tiny porpoise persists. Such perseverance gives us some ...

Vaquitas were regularly drowning in gill nets ... so totoaba fishing continues—as do the deaths of vaquitas as bycatch. In 2005 Mexico’s government made part of the gulf a vaquita refuge.

The vaquita is a critically endangered porpoise with only 10 to 13 members ... apparently dead after having been caught by fishermen in nets for totoaba fish. (OMAR VIDAL/AFP/Getty Images file ...

That mammal is the vaquita ... this delivered to your inbox. These nets are dangerous to marine life, as while they’re very effective in catching fish, they pose a threat to animals that ...

Mexico's navy and the environmental organization Sea Shepherd are working together to prevent the vaquita porpoise—which counts ... to catch totoaba, a large fish whose swim bladder can fetch ...