In Mexico, Full, Permanent Ban on Nets Is Required to Save World’s Most Endangered Porpoise
Ensenada, Mexico-(ENEWSPF)-Scientists announced today that fewer than 60 vaquita porpoises likely remain on Earth, down from 245 in 2008. The vaquita is the world’s smallest and most endangered porpoise, found only in Mexico’s northern Gulf of California. Without permanent and fully enforced protections, the species could be effectively extinct within six years.
The primary threat to vaquitas is entanglement in…
