World's Smallest Porpoise Inches Closer To Extinction. There Are Now Just 30 Of Them Left.

Hope for the vaquita, the most endangered marine mammal on Earth, is fast diminishing. Despite international efforts to prevent the extinction of the world’s smallest porpoise, found only in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California, the vaquita population has plummeted to just 30 individuals, according to a recent report by the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita, or CIRVA. Almost 50 percent of the world’s vaquitas were lost between 2015 and 2016, CIRVA found. Over the past fi...