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The painting is finished!
Frédérique Lucas’ masterpiece is complete. Four months in the making, the 17-year-old artist revealed her photo-realistic painting to the world yesterday. Titled “Despedida (Goodbye) Vaquita,” the...
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Vaquita Blanket Challenge
TAKE THE VAQUITA BLANKET CHALLENGE AND NOMINATE YOUR FRIENDS TO DO THE SAME! The Vaquita porpoise is the world’s most endangered marine mammal with only 97 left in existence. They live in only in a...
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Why are we doing this?
We spend a lot of time asking how to save the Vaquita. However, asking why may be just as important. To me, it has always been obvious. When any creature is in trouble, I want to help it; let alone...
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New Vaquita photos!
On October 22, two Vaquitas were photographed at close range, marking the first good photographs of the 2015 Vaquita Expedition, and some of the best ever of the species, for that matter! Check out...
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I got interviewed!
Please take half an hour to listen to the newest podcast in the Eyes on Conservation series by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Matt Podolsky, one of the producers of the upcoming feature-length Vaquita...
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Petition and Thunderclap progress report
I can’t believe how successful our petition to make the gillnet ban permanent and our social media Thunderclap campaign have become in such a short amount of time! We started these campaigns about a...
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The gillnet ban is permanent!
The day has finally come. Every type of gillnet is permanently banned in the vaquita’s range. There will never again be a legal gillnet in the upper Gulf of California. Today, Presidents Obama and Peña...
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CITES agrees to protect vaquita!
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has just announced a plan to end totoaba poaching in order to save the vaquita. CITES is an agreement between 183 nations with the...
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IWC approves new measures to save vaquita, but more is needed
The International Whaling Commission has just announced a plan that entails “greater enforcement of a gillnet ban throughout the vaquita’s range, support for efforts to remove existing gillnets and...
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Hello again
It’s been a while. The last post I wrote on this blog was in November 2016, at the end of a crazy year and the beginning of an even crazier saga in modern history. A lot has changed in that year and a...
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