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Mexico Steps up to the Plate for Endangered Porpoise

November 3, 2009

Posted by Ani Youatt in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

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bajacalifornia, endangeredspecies, marinemammals, mexico, oceans, porpoise, vaquita

  The World Series is heating up, but for me, the real home run from the past week is Mexico's decision to severely limit shrimp trawling in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico -- the only home of the world's last...

No Refuge for Mexico’s Endangered Vaquita Porpoise

August 19, 2009

Posted by Ani Youatt in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
endangeredspecies, fisheries, gulfofcalifornia, marinemammals, mexico, oceans, porpoise, vaquita

  It seems that every time we've secured a step forward for saving the highly endangered vaquita marina porpoise, we are then asked to take two steps back.  A proposal from local fishermen this month to use large, industrial size...

The Vaquita caught on tape...and not a moment too soon

November 20, 2008

Posted by Ani Youatt in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
endangeredspecies, fishery, gulfofcalifornia, marinemammals, mexico, oceans, porpoise, vaquita

I have been working for three years to save a species that almost no one has ever seen. Only a handful of fishermen and scientists have caught a glimpse of the rare and elusive vaquita porpoise that lives uniquely in...

Ani Youatt
Director, Mexico and Peru BioGems Project
Washington DC
I may be hardwired for international and environmental work. I grew up hiking, camping, and...
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