"If we give nature a chance, she’ll rebound and persevere!" Experts capture incredible footage of one of world's rarest ...

The vaquita, found in the northern Gulf of California, is the most endangered marine mammal species in the world. Illegal ...

There are over 150,000 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Of those species, over 42,000 are threatened with extinction. On that list are 17,903 marine species that ...

New calves give the endangered vaquita a lifeline, with fresh sightings showing breeding continues despite extreme decline, ...

LOS ANGELES -- 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. Vaquita ...

Mexico's Gulf of California — one of the most biodiverse places on the planet — teems with 891 species of fish and a third of the world's cetacean species, including the smallest and most endangered ...

Six vaquitas are reported to have died in fishing nets over the past six months, further threatening the survival of the world's smallest and most critically endangered porpoise. Gulf of California, ...

The world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita, remains under threat, despite the extension of a temporary ban on gillnets in the Upper Gulf of California, announced yesterday by the ...

Image Credit: Paula Olson, NOAA. The critically endangered vaquita porpoise is on the verge of extinction. In just 27 years, the marine mammal’s population plummeted from 600 in 1997 to fewer than 10 ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is receiving a high number of e-mails expressing great concern for the possible extinction, in the near future, of the vaquita, a critically endangered porpoise ...