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Bookmark or Share- Vaquita | NOAA FisheriesThe vaquita is a shy member of the porpoise family and the most endangered of the world's marine mammals. Less than 30 vaquitas remain in the wild, and entanglement in gillnets is driving the species toward extinction. Learn more about the vaquita.
- The Vaquita Hangs On: Drone Video Shows a Critically Endangered ...By Catrin Einhorn. June 7, 2023. Leer en español. The world’s most endangered marine mammal, a small porpoise called the vaquita, is hanging onto existence and appears to be benefiting from new...
- Vaquita: World's most endangered sea mammal 'not doomed' - BBC5 May 2022. By Helen Briggs,Environment correspondent. Paula Olson. The porpoise is teetering on the brink of extinction. The world's rarest sea mammal still has a chance of survival, despite ...
- Vaquita - Marine Mammal CommissionVaquita. The tiny vaquita porpoise is the world’s most endangered marine mammal. Its numbers are decreasing with approximately 10 remaining. Vaquitas die from entanglement in illegal gillnets. Gillnets are used in a lucrative illegal fishery for totoaba that serves an illegal trade of swim bladders to China as well as in shrimp and finfish ...
- Vaquita - WikipediaThe vaquita (/ v ə ˈ k iː t ə / və-KEE-tə; Phocoena sinus) is a species of porpoise endemic to the northern end of the Gulf of California in Baja California, Mexico. Reaching a maximum body length of 150 cm (4.9 ft) (females) or 140 cm (4.6 ft) (males), it is the smallest of all living cetaceans.
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