Medicine & TechnologyExperts found a way to pull the little sea cows 'vaquita marinas' from the brink of extinction. Read more about the current state of the rare mammals and effective solutions to increase their population.
The demand for the totoaba fish swim bladder causes the large decline in the vaquita porpoises population, leaving only 30 alive based on the campaigners' statistics. The totoaba fish itself is already an endangered species but illegal fishing persists just to acquire the totoaba fish swim bladder that costs a fortune.
The death of a rare vaquita porpoise creates a huge hullabaloo among the conservationists as the endangered cetacean is rapidly running towards extinction.
Millions of dollars of environmental funds have been spent just to save the world's smallest porpoise. Their main instruction is to impose a strict ban on gillnet fishing in the area that would also compensate local fishermen.