Flipboard Science Desk · @ScienceDesk
7061 followers · 935 posts · Server flipboard.socialMexican Navy hopes to expand net-snagging hooks to protect endangered vaquita porpoises.
AP reports: "The vaquita lives only in the Gulf (of California) ... where as few as ten vaquitas remain. They cannot be held or bred in captivity."
#vaquita #endangered #mexico #ocean #animals
J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍💙Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ💛Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ · @JSharp1436
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🔴 Today is #SaveTheVaquita Day. The #Vaquita is a small porpoise that can only be found in the Upper Gulf of #California (Sea of Cortez) in #Mexico
The species is listed as “Critically Endangered” by the #IUCN and is facing imminent extinction
Please ✒ ⤵
#iucn #Mexico #California #vaquita #savethevaquita
· @kowolf
3 followers · 88 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz#extintion #vaquita
Extinction alert issued over critically endangered vaquita | Endangered species | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/07/extinction-alert-issued-over-critically-endangered-vaquita
Sarah Primate · @LangurLover
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Jeffrey Gray · @phoca2004
180 followers · 577 posts · Server mastodon.scothttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/climate/vaquitas.html?unlocked_article_code=fFZ86Z8WO6c8TPPTXxDuJUYbr9bHi9oTeExsVUIi9KP73dYj9AfirwEtMoYFgMXeMzW-ebXtFwHBnIS5Mur9daU5MUPict77NAx4BLvva7bWqSANL1o5fZ_23Kz9QE7nl_7gQLgdaQypf1rgl677blmXVoaVHv3Z3MWrIUpQavR4i6BuP-uxUAICinAy3gKg_fpxa0nRoGBPiNIOaHSO6BWL0L4LZi3_2yGqutctdXonky9dEmfhoW00-gdquqhF2hLQbPlRjstXO_Yom15j0MZFVxx2wJnSJHCn6cprhqvR4iKQEF5LFd4QrqKywKKP9e8&smid=url-share The Vaquita hangs on, by a very tenuous thread. #MarineMammals #Vaquita #CriticallyEndangered
#criticallyendangered #vaquita #marinemammals
Sarah Primate · @LangurLover
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Kate :verigold: · @DolphinSeeker
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Experts doubt Mexico's pledge to protect endangered #porpoise https://phys.org/news/2023-04-experts-mexico-pledge-endangered-porpoise.html 🐬 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineScience #Porpoises #Bycatch #Extinction #Vaquita
{📷©Paula Olson/NOAA}
#vaquita #extinction #ByCatch #porpoises #marinescience #marinemammals #cetaceans #porpoise
PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
1386 followers · 14818 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.orgThings haven’t looked good for the #vaquita for decades, but the last few years have brought the species to the #BrinkOfExtinction . #Endemic & #exclusive to the upper #GulfOfCalifornia - the pint-size #porpoise has become an unfortunate bycatch of fishing operations in the area, primarily the illegal catching of #totoaba .
Listed as #Vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature
#IUCN #RedList of #ThreatenedSpecies
https://www.courthousenews.com/corruption-impunity-in-mexico-wiping-out-worlds-smallest-porpoise
#vaquita #brinkofextinction #endemic #exclusive #gulfofcalifornia #porpoise #totoaba #vulnerable #iucn #redlist #threatenedspecies #nature #ecocrisis #wildlife
Andy @Revkin · @revkin
1953 followers · 1132 posts · Server mastodon.greenConservation group @seashepherd believes new ship will help keep nets out of vaquita habitat | @fronterasdesk @ktblust https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1837898/conservation-group-believes-new-ship-will-help-keep-nets-out-vaquita-habitat Here's hoping. My #vaquita posts: https://revkin.substack.com/?sort=search&search=vaqita%20mexico%20zone https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631134348849053697
Hakai Magazine · @hakaimagazine
562 followers · 59 posts · Server sciencemastodon.comSome of Mexico’s most notorious wildlife traffickers are now in jail. Members of the “Totoaba Cartel” targetted the swim bladders of totoaba which can sell for up to US $80,000/kg, earning them the nickname “the cocaine of the sea.”
#GulfOfCalifornia #Totoaba #Cartel #Illegal #WildlifeTrafficker #WildlifeWednesday #Mexico #Marine #Endangered #Conservation #Vaquita
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/taking-down-mexicos-totoaba-cartel-helps-with-vaquita-conservation/
#gulfofcalifornia #totoaba #cartel #illegal #wildlifetrafficker #wildlifewednesday #mexico #marine #endangered #conservation #vaquita
Rocky Kistner · @therockyfiles
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Good story on efforts to save the #vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise that is being driven to extinction in Mexico by illegal fishing practices linked to organized crime: “Illegal totoaba fishing practices have contributed to the drastic population decline of vaquita, a small porpoise on the brink of extinction.” @MaxRadwin @mongabay #environment #dolphins
#vaquita #environment #dolphins
Gaia Vince · @WanderingGaia
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RT @EIA_News
#Mexico dismantles illegal #fishing cartels killing off rare #vaquita porpoise
- fewer than 10 vaquita remain, driven to extinction by illegal nets set for #totoaba fish to feed Asia's demand for dried swim bladders
#mexico #fishing #vaquita #totoaba #illegalwildlifetrade #China
· @RaimoKangasniemi
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RT @VaquitaSafe@twitter.com
Have you ever HEARD what a #vaquita sounds like?🐬 Like other porpoises, vaquitas use sonar to communicate to eachother & navigate through the waters of the Upper Gulf of California. To the human ear, this sounds like high-pitched clicks.
📸: @de_ballena@twitter.com
📊: @VoicesInTheSea@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/VaquitaSafe/status/1600218677655535617
· @RaimoKangasniemi
92 followers · 28018 posts · Server mastodon.socialRT @VaquitaSafe@twitter.com
In a few recent articles posted in the @IUCNCetaceanSG@twitter.com, Conservationists Barbara Taylor and Jay Barlow witness progress & setbacks in the UG.
🐬Check out these #vaquita updates here: https://iucn-csg.org/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/VaquitaSafe/status/1603110115095154690
· @RaimoKangasniemi
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RT @VaquitaSafe@twitter.com
It will take many important stakeholders working together to preserve #biodiversity in the Upper Gulf of California and keep the #vaquita from going extinct.
📸: Viva Vaquita
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/VaquitaSafe/status/1603110113425821696
· @RaimoKangasniemi
53 followers · 8062 posts · Server mastodon.social"The #vaquita (also known as the vaquita marina) is the world’s tiniest marine mammal and has long teetered on the brink of extinction, with some studies suggesting there are only between 10 and 20 vaquitas left in the wild."
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-protect-vaquita-cites/
Jas Z🐕 · @Iquitoz
47 followers · 542 posts · Server writing.exchangeVaquita: World's most endangered sea mammal 'not doomed'
#dna #extinction #marinelife #wildlife #vaquita
🐊 · @RAPIDPUNCHES
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Erb · @erbmaster
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panda of the sea
#art #illustration #skate #vaquita
#art #illustration #skate #vaquita