Fewer than 10 vaquitas, the world’s smallest porpoise, survive in the wild today, experts say. Illegal fishing has decimated ...

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 ...

The vaquita is a teeny porpoise species found in ... The netting is big enough for many fish and marine species to get their heads through, but not their entire bodies. When a fish gets its ...

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 ...

Vaquitas were regularly drowning in gill nets meant for shrimp and totoabas, a fish whose swim bladder is ... s government made part of the gulf a vaquita refuge. But the population kept falling ...

Scientists only learned of their existence in 1958 when a few vaquita skulls were found washed ashore. Because of their shy nature, vaquitas are hard for researchers to observe. They tend to swim ...

Sean Jansen spent most of his teenage and young adult life driving south across the border to surf along the Baja Peninsula ...

with Mexico stating a commitment to permanently ban all gillnets in all fisheries throughout the vaquita’s entire range. AWI and partner organizations issued a statement in response to this commitment ...