#WorldOceansDay: vaquita porpoises are fast dying out - can a radical rescue plan save them?
by Henry Nicholls from on (#2S90G)
It's World Ocean Day, so spare a thought for the vaquita - by the end of 2017, there could be just 15 of these small porpoises left
In a few months, conservationists will converge on the Gulf of California in a last-ditch effort to save the vaquita from extinction, a species of tiny porpoise. The scientists face an unprecedented challenge: to bring as many vaquita into captivity as possible.
When the Vaquita CPR rescue plan was announced back in April, I interviewed several scientists for Nature News. At that point, the best estimate was that there were just 30 vaquita left. It now looks like there are fewer than this.