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- Update on Yangtze finless porpoise in China
- Totoaba season ends with 400 active totoaba gillnets removed
- Over 800 totoaba swim bladders seized– April 2018 Vaquita update
- Third Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) Workshop, held in Borneo, puts 46 new candidate IMMAs on the map
- First vaquita found dead in 2018 – March 2018 Update
- Vaquita peril persists with on-going illegal totoaba fishing – February 2018 Update
- Insights into Critically Endangered Mekong Dolphin Genetics and What This Means for Conservation
- Cooperative Net Removal Efforts Increase to Save Vaquitas
- Arabian Sea humpback whale tagged off the coast of Oman crosses to India!
- Vaquita rescue efforts suspended
- 2017 Cetacean Red List Update
- Update on Mekong River dams and river dolphins
- Massive large whale mortality event in Chile
- Initiative to save Taiwanese white dolphins from extinction
- Vaquita on the verge of extinction
- Lost Indus dolphins in the Beas River, India
- Distribution and abundance of cetaceans in the European Atlantic – SCANS-III
- Workshop on Important Marine Mammal Areas in the South Pacific
- Announcement of the Second Indian Ocean Cetacean Symposium
- New Infographic from Arabian Sea Whale Network
Category Archives: Vaquita
Totoaba season ends with 400 active totoaba gillnets removed
Although efforts to remove lethal gillnets from the vaquita’s habitat will continue, the totoaba spawning season is now past. With fewer than 30 vaquitas remaining and the idea of rescuing some by capturing them and placing them in a protected … Continue reading
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Over 800 totoaba swim bladders seized– April 2018 Vaquita update
In several separate enforcement actions, over 800 totoaba swim bladders were seized in April 2018 (see news article). An in-depth television news story on the illegal totoaba fishery and enforcement efforts was also released (available in Spanish here). On 12 … Continue reading
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First vaquita found dead in 2018 – March 2018 Update
On March 27 the Mexican Navy recovered a decomposed vaquita. A necropsy was conducted on April 4 and it was confirmed that the animal died from entanglement (see Necropsy Report). The net removal effort continues With fewer than 30 vaquitas … Continue reading
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