Can int'l cooperation save the vaquita?
Mexico was joined by the United States and Canada to pool resources to try to keep the rare porpoise from extinction.
Photo: m.prinke/Flickr
It's a dire time for the vaquita, a rare porpoise living off the Gulf of California in Mexico. Just 150 vaquitas remain, and that number shrinks each year as dozens are caught and killed in fishermen's' nets. Conservationists fear they have just one or two years to save the species from extinction.
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