#totoaba — Public Fediverse posts
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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
https://www.courthousenews.com/corruption-impunity-in-mexico-wiping-out-worlds-smallest-porpoise -
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/