Vaquitas are adorably tiny porpoises and there are only about 10 remaining

The vaquita (“little sea cow”), the world’s smallest cetacean found only in Mexico’s Gulf of California, has seen its numbers plummet from around 600 in the late 1990s to 10-13 vaquitas today. The porpoises, which measure between 4 to 5 feet as adults, frequently get entangled and drown in the gillnets used by poachers to illegally catch totoaba fish, whose swim bladders fetch high prices in China. — Read the rest

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