Whenever an animal species drops into the single digits, every risk to them matters. While not necessarily a common ...
There are over 150,000 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Of those species, over 42,000 are threatened with extinction. On that list are 17,903 marine species that ...
Save the Vaquita Day is the first Saturday after the 4th of July, and it serves as a reminder that preventing extinctions ...
Mexico announced plans Friday to use trained dolphins to corral the last remaining vaquita marina porpoises into a protected breeding ground, a last-ditch bid to save the critically endangered species ...
Mexico's Gulf of California — one of the most biodiverse places on the planet — teems with 891 species of fish and a third of the world's cetacean species, including the smallest and most endangered ...
The Vaquita Marina is a very small cetacean that inhabits only the upper Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. Its peaceful existence has begun to be threatened mainly by nets ...
Jaramillo-Legorreta, A., Rojas-Bracho, L., Brownell, Robert L., Jr., Read, A. J., Reeves, R. R., Ralls, Katherine, and Taylor, Barbara L. 2007. "Saving the vaquita ...