There are over 150,000 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Of those species, over 42,000 ...

Steps to protect the totoaba fish and vaquita porpoise come after the country was sanctioned, but they are being challenged by those intent on selling the fish. IE 11 is not supported.

Any tourist activity that involves getting close to their habitat can stress the animals and disrupt their natural behavior.

A 2013 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seizure of illegal bladders was valued at more than $3.6 million, NPR reported in 2016, and individual bladders are worth as much as $250,000 on the black market.

The vaquita, an endangered harbor porpoise that only lives in the Gulf of California, is being killed as collateral damage in the hunt for the bladders of an endangered fish that shares these same ...

As a result, the vaquita population has now dwindled to an estimated 10 individuals, down from around 600 in 1997. To better understand the genetic diversity of the remaining vaquitas, an ...

Dried fish bladders are believed to be aphrodisiacs and have various health benefits. ... The end of the fishing frenzy in San Felipe was blamed on a marine mammal called the vaquita porpoise.

The men catch the fish with cimbra instead, a series of baited hooks on a long, floating line. Then they kill and gut the fish for their bladders as normal. No vaquita are harmed.

A new survey found a larger-than-expected population of the world’s most endangered marine mammal, a small porpoise whose collapse has generated international contempt toward Mexico. Researchers ...

The International Whaling Commission released its first-ever extinction alert Monday to warn of the potential danger facing the critically endangered vaquita porpoise.. Known to be the smallest of ...

In China, the swim bladder of the totoaba fish is considered a delicacy that has medicinal properties — and it has been priced at $60,000 per kilogram, according to a Brookings Institution report.