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Save the Critically Endangered Vaquita by Making Gillnet Ban Permanent

February 12, 2016 by The Ant's Meow in Causes

There are only 50 to 100 Vaquita porpoises left in the world, and they are all concentrated in a tiny region in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. They are the rarest marine mammal species, and the biggest threat to their existence is a gillnet, a fishing net in which they accidentally entangle themselves.

Sign VIVA Vaquita Coalition’s petition to urge Mexico's president and other highly influential people to strictly enforce the gillnet ban and make it permanent. 

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February 12, 2016 /The Ant's Meow
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