Landlocked on Purpose
In the fall of 1922, Aldo Leopold and his brother Carl paddled a canoe into the delta of the Colorado River and found a wilderness of green lagoons, a hundred channels braiding through two million acres of cottonwood and willow, egrets standing in the shallows, deer in the cane, and somewhere beyond the firelight the jaguar they never saw and never stopped feeling. Leopold wrote about that trip a quarter century later and confessed that he never went back. He preferred the delta as memory held it, because he understood what was coming for it. He was right to stay away. In November of that same year, in a lodge outside Santa Fe, commissioners from seven states signed the Colorado River Compact and divided the river on paper. The canoe and the signature belong in the same paragraph because one of them canceled the other. […]#gulfofcalifornia — Public Fediverse posts
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Living in paradise #gulfofcalifornia #mexico #sunset
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They’re Hunting Down The Great White Shark
Even apex predators can become prey. Here’s how orcas are flipping the script on the ocean’s most feared…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #Carcharodoncarcharias #gaansbaai #greatwhiteshark #GulfofCalifornia #KillerWhale #Marinebiology #orca #orcashuntingsharks #Orcinusorca #portandstarboard #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/217910/ Experts capture incredible footage of one of world’s rarest creatures: ‘Finally some good news’ #AerialFootage #Éire #EndangeredSpecies #GulfOfCalifornia #IE #Ireland #MexicanAuthorities #Science #SeaShepherd #VaquitaPorpoise #Wildlife
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Experts capture incredible footage of one of world’s rarest creatures: ‘Finally some good news’
A rare and heartening sight has emerged from the Gulf of California: The critically endangered vaquita porpoise has…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #aerialfootage #CA #Canada #Endangeredspecies #GulfofCalifornia #Mexicanauthorities #Science #SeaShepherd #vaquitaporpoise
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They’re Hunting Down The Great White Shark
Even apex predators can become prey. Here’s how orcas are flipping the script on the ocean’s most feared…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #CA #Canada #Carcharodoncarcharias #gaansbaai #Greatwhiteshark #GulfofCalifornia #killerwhale #Marinebiology #orca #orcashuntingsharks #Orcinusorca #portandstarboard
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Killer whales in the Gulf of California are eating great white sharks
Killer whales in northern Mexico waters have been in the spotlight this week after scientists documented them attacking…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #CA #Canada #Greatwhiteshark #GulfofCalifornia #Orcas #Science
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/169797/ Killer whales in the Gulf of California are eating great white sharks #Éire #GreatWhiteShark #GulfOfCalifornia #IE #Ireland #orcas #Science #Wildlife
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Orcas Filmed Hunting Great White Sharks and Eating Their Livers with Each Other in Amazing Footage
NEED TO KNOW Orcas, also known as killer whales, have been captured on video footage feasting on the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #GulfofCalifornia #orcas #Whiteshark
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🦈⚔️ Researchers in #Mexico's Gulf of California filmed #orcas hunting juvenile great white #sharks using a sophisticated strategy that exploits the sharks' tonic immobility response. The orcas coordinate attacks to flip sharks upside down, then harvest their energy-rich livers and share the prize among their pod, including calves.
#greatwhitesharks #gulfofcalifornia #marinebiology #predators #animalbehavior #oceanlife #hunting #science #wildlife #conservation #animals
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Whales and dolphins at risk as report reveals ecological decline in Gulf of California https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/whales-and-dolphins-at-risk-as-report-reveals-ecological-decline-in-gulf-of-california/
#marinelife #whales #dolphins #California #GulfOfCalifornia #environment
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Hey Mexico...
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
#Humor #Funny #Meme #GulfOfAmerica #GulfOfMexico #GulfOfCalifornia
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#SpermWhale departure linked to decline in jumbo #squid population in #GulfofCalifornia
Study offers insight into relationship between apex marine predators and their environment, highlighting sperm #whales as key indicators of oceanic health. Conducted over 9-years, utilized extensive survey data and photo-identification techniques to track sperm #whale populations. Finding striking correlation between decline of #jumbosquid and disappearance of sperm whales from region
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#Mexico expedition sights only 6 to 8 #vaquita #porpoises, the most endangered #marinemammal
Last year, experts on a sighting expedition estimated they saw from 10 to 13 of the tiny, shy, elusive porpoises during nearly two weeks of sailing in the #GulfOfCalifornia, also known as the #SeaOfCortez. More troubling, no baby vaquitas were seen this year by the conservation group #SeaShepherd https://phys.org/news/2024-06-mexico-sights-vaquita-porpoises-endangered.html -
#EarthquakeReport for #OTD in 2017 M5.7 #Sismo #Terremoto #Earthquake in the #GulfOfCalifornia #MarDeCortés offshore of #Mexico
right-lateral strike-slip (moving side-by-side) earthquake
overlapping fracture zones & spreading ridgeslearn more about the https://earthjay.com/?p=5210
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The First Extinction Alert Issued In 70 Years For Rarest Marine Mammal On Earth | IFLScience
https://www.iflscience.com/the-first-extinction-alert-issued-in-70-years-for-rarest-marine-mammal-on-earth-72050#Extinction
#Marine
#Mammal
#Vaquitas
#Cetacean
#GulfOfCalifornia
#Gillnets
#Fishing
#Totoaba
#BlackMarket
#ChineseMedicine
#LeonardoDiCapriosFoundation
#NavyTrainedDolphins
#Dolphins
#MexicanNavy
#ZeroToleranceArea
#ZTA
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Things haven’t looked good for the #vaquita for decades, but the last few years have brought the species to the #BrinkOfExtinction . #Endemic & #exclusive to the upper #GulfOfCalifornia - the pint-size #porpoise has become an unfortunate bycatch of fishing operations in the area, primarily the illegal catching of #totoaba .
Listed as #Vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature
#IUCN #RedList of #ThreatenedSpecies
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Some of Mexico’s most notorious wildlife traffickers are now in jail. Members of the “Totoaba Cartel” targetted the swim bladders of totoaba which can sell for up to US $80,000/kg, earning them the nickname “the cocaine of the sea.”
#GulfOfCalifornia #Totoaba #Cartel #Illegal #WildlifeTrafficker #WildlifeWednesday #Mexico #Marine #Endangered #Conservation #Vaquita
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/taking-down-mexicos-totoaba-cartel-helps-with-vaquita-conservation/
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Mexican authorities search for 2 missing Americans in the Gulf of California
#Mexico #Americans #GulfofCalifornia
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Sunset in Mexico last week, looking out at the Sea of Cortez.
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" #Mexican #fisherman 'dies after attack on Sea Shepherd conservationists'
#SeaShepherd said the clash happened after #fishing boats attacked one of its vessels in the Gulf of California, where it is working to protect the endangered vaquita #porpoise.
...The man's family allege that his boat was intentionally rammed."