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Vaquita porpoises are on the edge of extinction, with just 10 left in their sole habitat within Mexico’s Gulf of California.
©Paula OLSONThis undated image released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows a mother and calf vaquita surfacing in the waters off San Felipe, Mexico
However, a new study published Thursday in the journal Science offers some hope: the world’s rarest marine mammals aren’t doomed by a lack of genetic diversity, and can recover if illegal “gillnet” fishing ceases immediately.
“We’re trying to push back on this idea that there’s no hope, that nothing we do could save them at this point. It’s just not an accurate assumption,” lead author Jacqueline Robinson of the University of California San Francisco told AFP.
©-This handout pictured taken on October 18, 2017, and released by the Mexican Secretary…
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