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.

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.

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 ...

Chinese Taste For Fish Bladder Threatens Rare Porpoise In Mexico : Goats and Soda The nets that ensnare the giant totoaba fish also trap and kill an endangered porpoise called the vaquita.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

A vaquita porpoise swims with its fin above the water. Mexico and conservation group Sea Shepherd will embark on a journey to find the world’s remaining vaquita marina, the ocean’s most ...