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However, researchers completed the first survey of their numbers in 1997 and estimated the population to be 567 individuals. Nearly 30 years later, with 10 or less remaining, the vaquita ...
The International Whaling Commission released its first ever extinction alert to raise awareness surrounding the decreasing vaquita porpoise population.
The critically endangered vaquita, the world's smallest porpoise and native to Mexico's Gulf of California, has been imperiled by illegal gill net fishing for an endangered fish called the totoaba ...
The vaquita (/ v ə ˈ k iː t ə / və-KEE-tə; Phocoena sinus) is a species of porpoise endemic to the northern end of the Gulf of California in Baja California, Mexico.Reaching a maximum body length of 150 cm (4.9 ft) (females) or 140 cm (4.6 ft) (males), it is the smallest of all living cetaceans.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species. [1]
status EX LE LT DL status_ref Link (ESA legal code) (USFWS ESP species search) Notes EX = extinct (ESA status D3A - "delisted, apparently extinct") LE = Listed Endangered. LT = Listed Threatened DL = Delisted – should only be used on Wikipedia if a species is delisted because it is no longer threatened (ESA status D3C, DM, and possibly DO and DP)
The Rice's whale is on the brink of extinction and, alongside the vaquita, is one of the most endangered cetaceans in the world. It is listed as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List and protected under the United States Endangered Species Act. The best population estimate is 33, with as little as 16 mature individuals, and the population ...
CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Over a century after it was last seen, an endangered species has been found alive in Central Illinois. The Salamander Mussel was last spotted in Central Illinois 120 ...