Vaquita — Porpoise Conservation Society, Save the Vaquita Porpoise — Porpoise Conservation Society, Save the Vaquita Porpoise — Porpoise Conservation Society, 7/17/2020 · Several conservation efforts are under way to rescue the vaquita. These include: the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Decisions 18.292 to 18.295 on Totoaba, which include considerations on the illegal trade in totoaba and its implications for the vaquita.
It needs to intensify its enforcement efforts. Send a message to the Mexican President, commend him for his efforts to save the vaquita and encourage the Mexican government to keep up its efforts to remove gill-nets from the vaquita habitat forever and to step up.
5/29/2019 · Vaquita Conservation Facilitating an international collaboration to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction. The NMMF is a key partner in VaquitaCPR (Conservation, Protection, & Recovery), a consortium comprised of marine mammal scientists, veterinarians, and biologists from around the world that came together to attempt to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction.
Among the efforts to protect the vaquita adopted by the Government of Mexico are the designation of a Biosphere Reserve (The Upper Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in 1993 and, in 2005, the establishment of a Vaquita Refuge, where all commercial fishing (including gillnets) is banned in core vaquita habitat.
While efforts to reduce the catch of vaquita in the shrimp fishery have been moderately successful, increasing Chinese appetite for the swim bladders of the totoaba (an endangered fish in the same area) has resurrected the now-illegal fishery for that species, substantially increasing the death toll of the vaquita once again.
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