We have told you several times about the vaquita, the smallest porpoise in the world also known as the sea panda, sadly known as it risks extinction. Now Mexico will adopt a new strategy to try to save it.
We have told you several times about the vaquita, the smallest porpoise in the world also known as panda of the seas and sadly known in that risks extinction. Now Mexico will adopt a new strategy to try to save it.
Dolphins will help the vaquita to which the Mexican government has decided to ask for help to take the animals to a safe place. The chosen dolphins have been specially trained by the US Navy to try to save endangered species.
As stated by the Mexican environment minister, Rafael Pacchiano, dolphins they will be at work starting next September to locate vaquita specimens and arrange for them to be taken to a marine shelter. However, the undertaking is not easy, the mammals will in fact have to identify the few remaining vaquita specimens in large areas of the sea.
To save the vaquita Mexico also has permanently banned fishing nets accused of having led to the near extinction of these animals. The nets, in fact, used to capture other species of fish, in particular totabas, ended up too often to capture and kill also specimens of vaquitas.
La totaba bladder it is highly appreciated in China both as a delicious food and as a natural remedy, as it is considered aphrodisiac. This product is undoubtedly coveted by fishermen as the price at which it is sold is very high (it can even reach 2 thousand euros), there are those who have called it "the cocaine of the seas". However, not only the totaba population (also at risk) is affected by this whole situation, but also that of little cow and within a year they could become extinct.
The historic decision to help the little porpoise with dolphins, as well as banning reckless fishing, was also made thanks to the commitment of Leonardo DiCaprio who a few days ago, after meeting the President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto and other government officials, managed to obtain the signature of a memorandum of understanding, thanks to which the Mexican government has made a commitment to concretely protect marine ecosystems in the Gulf of California.
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The situation of the vaquita is truly dramatic: there are fewer than 30 native specimens in the wild. The dolphins will succeed in their enterprise or will we be forced to put this species on the ever-growing list of extinct animals?
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