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Adult vaquita with tiny calf, 2008. Photos taken under permit (Oficio No. DR/488/08 from the Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (CONANP/Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT), within a natural protected area subject to special management and decreed as such by the Mexican Government. Photo Credit: Paula Olson.
link to this Yucatan Times, August 7 2021 article:
Leonardo DiCaprio criticizes the AMLO government for abandoning the vaquita marina
link to this Excelsior article (in Spanish), August 6 2021
Whale Museum ship returns to the Zero Tolerance Area
link to this new Andy Revkin article:
A Porpoise at the Precipice – Should We Let the Vaquita Go?
link to this new Brookings Institute publication:
ORDER FROM CHAOS A porpoise to serve: Rescuing the vaquita and the US-Mexico relationship
Kristin Nowell and Vanda Felbab-BrownMonday, July 26, 2021
link to this new Cetacean Specialist Group article:
NEW ESTIMATE OF VAQUITA STATUS IMPROVED THROUGH ELICITATION OF EXPERT KNOWLEDGE
20 Apr 2021
October 18, 2017. Scientists hold the first vaquita ever captured, in a last minute attempt to take remaining individuals into human care because protection of the wild population was failing. Illegal fishing had increased quickly resulting in about half of the remaining vaquitas being killed each year. Unfortunately, this emergency attempt to catch and save vaquitas was not successful. ©VaquitaCPR