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The looming extinction of the Maui dolphin

Like Mexico’s embattled vaquita porpoise, another marine mammal on the other side of the Pacific Ocean may be making its last stand. The Maui’s dolphin, the world’s smallest and rarest dolphin, which lives off the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island, is down to about 60 individuals, from 2000 in the 1970s… Source

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