Without massive conservation efforts put into place soon, this endangered marine mammal will likely not make it to the end of the decade.

Swimming off the coast of Mexico in the Gulf of California live the few remaining vaquitas on earth. This endangered cetacean ...

Mexico's Gulf of California — one of the most biodiverse places on the planet — teems with 891 species of fish and a third of the world's cetacean species, including the smallest and most endangered ...

Identified only 50 years ago, the vaquita is endemic to Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California. Reaching a maximum length of about four feet, the porpoise is gray, with dark stripes running from its ...

As recently as 30 years ago, there were approximately 600 vaquitas swimming in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico. At least three vaquita were found dead in the spring of 2016; all bore evidence of ...

A habitat completely free from gillnets is now the only chance for the vaquita to survive. Help us protect their habitat, the Upper Gulf of California, from gillnets. Take action now. While the ...

Cutting-edge technology in a lab at Florida Atlantic University was used to digitize the skeleton of the rarest marine mammal in the world, a porpoise called the vaquita, ensuring that the animal ...

and joins in the efforts to save vaquita from extinction through the cancellation of gillnet fisheries that incidentally catch this porpoise in the Upper Gulf of California, as announced today by the ...

There are estimated to be fewer than 20 individuals left in a small area in the Gulf of California, the only place in the world where the vaquita is found, according to Sea Shepherd. Navy ...

Mexico's Gulf of California — one of the most biodiverse places on the planet — teems with 891 species of fish and a third of the world's cetacean species, including the smallest and most endangered ...

This slow reproduction rate is another hurdle the vaquita faces in increasing its numbers. Vaquitas have a very limited range, swimming only in the northern part of the Gulf of California in an ...