Petition updateSave Mexico's Vaquita Porpoise from Imminent Extinction!Only 22 vaquita remain ─ if we're lucky
Marcus WernickeCanada
9 Mar 2019

Devastating news from the Sea of Cortez: Experts now believe that only 22 individuals remain. And that's the most optimistic estimate. Despite ambitious efforts by local and international NGOs to curb the illegal trade with totoaba swim bladders and to remove gill-nets from the Sea of Cortez, the cartels continue their lucrative business, and vaquita continue to get caught in illegal nets and die. This is Mexico's last chance to act decisively ─ and ours to make sure that they do.

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