The proposal has not yet been finalized. Officials propose disturbing new measures that could drive the world's most endangered marine mammal to extinction: 'A real threat to the future' first ...

Successful recovery of the vaquita’s limited population depends on eliminating the threat of gillnet fishing in their habitat. There are an estimated 7-10 vaquitas left in the entire world, limited to ...

SAN FELIPE, Baja Mexico (NEWS 8) - Scientists have decided to halt their efforts to capture endangered vaquita porpoises on the Sea of Cortez. The announcement followed the death of an adult female ...

(KGTV) — What's left of the world's Vaquita calls the Gulf of California home. In the northern portion of the gulf, the porpoise's fate has become much like that of other cetaceans (whales, dolphins, ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The vaquita porpoise lives only in the Northern Gulf of California. They are shy animals that only hang out in small groups and because of that not many people have seen them.

A lone vaquita, Phocoena sinus, in the open sea. For the first time since researchers have been tracking the vaquita, the estimated number of individuals of this nearly extinct species of porpoise has ...

The following script is from "The Last Vaquitas" which aired on May 22, 2016. Sharyn Alfonsi is the correspondent. David Schneider and Joyce Gesundheit, producer. You would think the most endangered ...

Now, Mexican regulators are considering shrinking the area where gillnets are prohibited to the relatively small vaquita ...

LA JOLLA, Calif.— Scientists announced today that only 10 vaquita porpoises likely remain in the world and that the animal’s extinction is virtually assured without bold and immediate action. The ...

LA JOLLA, Calif.— Scientists announced this week that only an estimated 30 vaquita porpoises remain in the world. In a new report, the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita ...