Critically Endangered

  Analyses of visual sightings and acoustic detections of vaquitas during the range-wide survey last September-December have now been released, suggesting that only about 60 of these tiny 'desert porpoises' remain on the planet. And, despite an unprecedented effort by the current Mexican administration and its...

[caption id="attachment_2180" align="alignleft" width="300"] Vaquita, Chris Johnson, 2008[/caption] Only about 60 vaquitas remain in the Gulf of California, according to a report presented this week to Mexico’s Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources and the governor of Baja California. This represents a decline of more...

  Three dead vaquitas were discovered and examined in the northern Gulf of California (Mexico) in March 2016: (1) a floating carcass found by researchers from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the Vaquita Refuge area on 4 March, (2) a carcass reported by phone to...

  Members of the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA) attending the Society for Marine Mammalogy's​ Biennial Conference in San Francisco took the opportunity​ to meet briefly on 16 December 2015. ​It was largely an informational meeting where participants received brief updates on...