vaquita

North American environmental commission launches trinational vaquita conservation plan

Mexicali, Mexico, 28 October 2008 In response to the urgent need to save the vaquita porpoise, the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States asked the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) to formulate a strategy to support Mexico's efforts to recover the world's most-endangere...

New report looks at the state of the North American environment

...r and water, biodiversity and ecosystems, and pollution. Specific topics include climate change, species of concernincluding the critically endangered vaquita porpoiseand the quality and quantity of water shared between the North American nations. The North American Mosaic: An Overview of Key Environment...

Critically endangered porpoise is focus of new research report

...e irreversible. Scientists believe only about 150 vaquita remain. The research team, led by Armando Jara...nservation Union. The group assessed the number of vaquita based on past estimates of abundance and deaths in...ther with current fishing effort. Approximately 30 vaquita drown each year in the Gulf of California when the...

Scientists fear rare dolphin driven to extinction by human activities

...tional fisheries biologist for NOAA Fisheries. The vaquita is a critically endangered porpoise found only in ...the uppermost part of Mexico's Gulf of California. vaquita have been reduced to only a few hundred animals be...cidentally caught in similar fishing gear. The vaquita and other highly imperiled marine mammals represen...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...the vaquita. With a body less than 1.5 m long, the vaquita is the smallest living cetacean (the order Cetacea...5 km2) and one of the smallest populations ( The vaquita is endemic to the north-western corner of the Gulf...aja California Peninsula. What is driving the vaquita towards extinction" It is not, as is so often the ...