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| Last chance to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction? |
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| Saturday, 07 November 2009 10:39 | |||
But now the Mexican government has gone one step further, passing a resolution to ban trawling in a specific region known as the Vaquita Refuge.... Read Full Article by John Platt 
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please act now to save this wonderful porpose, there is NO going back once they are gone
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November 09, 2009
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Please save these beautiful creatures. They need our protection as some humans do not regard animals of any kind equal to human treatment.
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November 10, 2009
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Better late than never I suppose but the action of the Mexican Government needs to be implemented immediatly.
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November 12, 2009
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I'm glad to see that the Mexican government is taking actions to protect the vaquita, but it's so disheartening to hear that the fishermen are using the money to buy new boats and motors. I also think we need to raise more awareness of the plight of the vaquita. I recently signed a petition to save the vaquita and there were only 65 other signatures on it and the goal was 5000. Please do all you can to spread the word about the vaquita.
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March 08, 2010
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This is a crucial time for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus). Despite conservation efforts, the vaquita population has dropped more than 50 percent in the past three years as hundreds of porpoises have died in commercial fishing nets. Now just 150 vaquitas remain in their sole habitat, a portion of the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico, and the species exists at the razor's edge of extinction.
"Earlier programmes to alter fishing practices in the region have proven difficult to implement; last year, $1 million from the government that ostensibly paid regional fishermen not to fish instead went to buy new boats and motors."
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