Whenever an animal species drops into the single digits, every risk to them matters. While not necessarily a common ...
Save the Vaquita Day is the first Saturday after the 4th of July, and it serves as a reminder that preventing extinctions ...
SAN FELIPE, Baja Mexico (NEWS 8) - Scientists have decided to halt their efforts to capture endangered vaquita porpoises on the Sea of Cortez. The announcement followed the death of an adult female ...
The world’s smallest, most-endangered porpoise finds itself tangled in gillnets and black-market Chinese medicine, but the Mexican Navy and the U.S. Navy’s trained dolphins are trying to come to its ...
The following script is from "The Last Vaquitas" which aired on May 22, 2016. Sharyn Alfonsi is the correspondent. David Schneider and Joyce Gesundheit, producer. You would think the most endangered ...
(KGTV) — What's left of the world's Vaquita calls the Gulf of California home. In the northern portion of the gulf, the porpoise's fate has become much like that of other cetaceans (whales, dolphins, ...
Will the world’s smallest and rarest porpoise still swim the waters of the Gulf of California two years from now? That’s the question for the vaquita, arguably the world’s most endangered marine ...
The vaquita porpoise, down to 10 individuals left, can still survive. Researchers found that the genetic makeup of the species is diverse enough to support recovery. The most serious threat to the ...
Research published in the academic journal Mammal Review has uncovered the missing link in the depleting population of the vaquita. With a body less than 1.5 m long, the vaquita is the smallest living ...
The vaquita, a tiny marine mammal found in the Gulf of California, is almost extinct. Scientists estimate that there are only about ten left. For International Save the Vaquita Day, we spoke to ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The vaquita porpoise lives only in the Northern Gulf of California. They are shy animals that only hang out in small groups and because of that not many people have seen them.