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Today, vaquitas are listed as critically endangered. On the brink of extinction, the vaquita is the smallest living species of cetacean. ©Paula Olson, NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ...
The vaquita is listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List, which is only one level above being completely extinct in the wild. It is considered the most endangered marine mammal in the world. The vaquita has been listed as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species since 1996. [2]
The International Whaling Commission released its first ever extinction alert to raise awareness surrounding the decreasing vaquita porpoise population.
Endangered (EN) – very high risk of extinction in the wild, meets any of criteria A to E for Endangered. Vulnerable (VU) – meets one of the 5 Red List criteria and thus considered to be at high risk of unnatural (human-caused) extinction without further human intervention. Near Threatened (NT) – close to being endangered in the near future.
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 ...
Silky sifaka (Propithecus candidus), fewer than 1,000 still alive. The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world.
The number of Mexico’s critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises sighted in the Gulf of California fell to between 6 and 8 this year, researchers said Tuesday. Last year, experts on a ...
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 ...