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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFinally, a Reason to Hope for the World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal
Mexico has announced a new policy to save the vaquita, a tiny porpoise on the brink of extinction.
A vaquita captured as bycatch. (Photo: Getty Images)
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/01/vaquita-mexico-new-policy?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-03-02
March 01, 2015 By Kristina Bravo
Kristina Bravo is Assistant Editor at TakePart.
From the little blue macaw to the Javan tiger, many animals have vanished under our watch. The long list is poised to soon include another: the vaquita, a tiny porpoise found only in the Gulf of California.
Its the most endangered marine mammal on the planet, and a last-ditch effort by the Mexican government gives the fewer than 100 vaquitas remaining their final chance at survival. Mexicos environment ministry this week announced a new policy that would ban gill netsin which vaquitas, which grow about four feet long, get trapped and diefor two years across the northern Gulf of California. The thousands of local fishers who use them to catch shrimp, mostly for the U.S. market, will be compensated for their loss.
The policy will take effect in March. Fishers and others who depend on shrimp catch will receive installments of $72 million over two years.
I really think that this is the last chance, and we had better get our act together, Omar Vidal, director of World Wildlife Fund Mexico, told The New York Times. I think the government is very serious.
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Finally, a Reason to Hope for the World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Mar 2015
OP
Better find out what the vaquita thinks about Hillary before asking DU to support it.
McCamy Taylor
Mar 2015
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lovemydog
(11,833 posts)1. I hope they save the vaquita!
Thanks for the post Omaha Steve.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)2. Better find out what the vaquita thinks about Hillary before asking DU to support it.
J/k. Love marine mammals. But it is kind of crazy around here right now. If it does not prove that Hillary is the Anti-Christ then a lot of folks are not interested. This would probably be the perfect time for the NeoCons to do something like try to start an Iran War. No one at DU would even notice.....
Behind the Aegis
(53,949 posts)3. I have never heard of this animal.
I am glad to hear about it and seeing it is being protected. It's kinda cute.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)4. never heard of it
I greatly appreciate this, and many of your posts, Omaha Steve.