Friday 17 April 2015

Mexico boosts protection of near-extinct porpoise

FLORA AND FAUNA
Mexico boosts protection of near-extinct porpoise
Mexico City (AFP) April 16, 2015 - Mexico is greatly expanding a protected area of the Gulf of California and boosting navy patrols in an effort to save the vaquita marina, a small porpoise facing imminent extinction. A report by a panel of international scientists warned last year that there were fewer than 100 vaquitas remaining, down from 200 specimens in 2012, and the animal could vanish by 2018. The dire warning prom ... more


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