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Why the current plan to save the endangered vaquita porpoise won't work

  • Written by Andrew Frederick Johnson, Postdoctoral Researcher of Marine Biology at Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
imageA dead vaquita entangled in a gillnet.NOAA Fisheries West Coast, CC BY-NC-ND

With fewer than 60 individuals left, the world’s smallest porpoise, the vaquita marina (Phocoena sinus), continues to balance on the edge of extinction. Constant pressures from conservation groups have lead to a two-year emergency gillnet ban, which will end in May...

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