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    Help Save the World’s Most Endangered Species

    Help Save the World’s Most Endangered Species

    By Zak Smith There are only about 30 vaquita porpoises left in the world. The smallest and most endangered cetacean species on the planet faces extinction in three years if the people with the power to save it don’t take immediate action. Instead of shrugging their shoulders and casting blame elsewhere, the Mexican government, Mexican […]

    66 Totoaba Found Dead in a Single Net, Dead Newborn Vaquita Washes Ashore

    66 Totoaba Found Dead in a Single Net, Dead Newborn Vaquita Washes Ashore

    With the near-extinct vaquita porpoise now numbering less than 30, conservation was dealt a blow on March 12, when Sea Shepherd found a dead newborn vaquita on the beach just 33 km south of San Felipe, in the Northern area of the Gulf of California. The non-profit marine conservation society’s anti-poaching ships, the M/V Farley […]

    Gillnets Push Species to the Brink of Extinction

    Gillnets Push Species to the Brink of Extinction

    By Raffaella Tolicetti With reproductive instincts pushing them towards the Colorado River Delta, thousands of corvina fish are currently swimming with the tide along the coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean. Making their way to the estuaries, where fresh water mixes with the saline components of the seas, these corvina are unaware that many of […]