Report: World’s Most Endangered Porpoise Now Likely Down to Just 50

Extinction Imminent Without Drastic Action by Mexico to Save Vaquita

SAN DIEGO—(ENEWSPF)–June 19, 2015.  A scientific report released today finds that vaquita porpoises declined by more than 40 percent in a single year and consequently only around 50 individuals of the species likely remain on Earth. The vaquita is the world’s smallest and most endangered porpoise, found only in Mexico’s northern Gulf of California.

While the vaquita population has been declining for decades, based on…