Extinction alert issued for Mexico’s endangered vaquita porpoise

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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has issued an extinction alert for the endangered vaquita porpoise, whose population is now estimated to be less than a dozen.

The vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise, is native to Mexico’s Gulf of California. It has been threatened by illegal gill net fishing for an endangered fish called the totoaba, whose bladder is highly valued in Asia.

The IWC’s scientific committee highlighted in a report that the vaquita’s population dropped 83 per cent between 2015 and 2018 to only nine or 10 animals.

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