A dead vaquita marina is seen caught in a fishing net in Santa Clara Gulf, Sonora, Mexico. -AFP filepic
MEXICO CITY: The World Wildlife Fund urged Mexican authorities on Monday to ban all fishing in the upper Gulf of California to save the vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise, from extinction.
The environmentalist group made the plea three days after an international team of scientists revealed that only 60 of the sea creatures were left and that they could vanish by 2022.
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