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Published online 16 November 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.262
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Endangered porpoise worse off than thought
Mexican marine mammal may have two years left.
The world’s most critically endangered marine mammal — a porpoise that lives off the western coast of Mexico — is closer to extinction than previously believed, says a new study.
Only an estimated 150 individuals of the species, called a vaquita, survive in its sole habitat in the upper Gulf of California, according to an article1 published online this week in Conservation Biology.
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That the fishing industry can talk openly about wiping it out. Thats a disgrace, wiping any animal out is a first step to wipe ourselves out.