World's smallest porpoise nearer extinction in Mexico

World's smallest porpoise nearer extinction in Mexico Mexico City (AFP) May 14, 2016 - Environmentalists warned Friday that Mexico's vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise, was close to extinction as the government reported that only 60 were now left. The population has dramatically dropped despite the arrival of navy reinforcements in the upper Gulf of California in April 2015 to enforce a ban on fishing gillnets blamed for the vaquita's death. The porpoise's popul ... more

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