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Last Chance to Save the Vaquita Porpoise From Extinction?
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, endangered, extinction, porpoise, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 18 days ago - scientificamerican.com
This is a crucial time for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus). Despite conservation efforts, the vaquita population has dropped more than 50 percent in the past three years as hundreds of porpoises have died in commercial fishing
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Sign Petition: Stop Japan's Dolphin Slaughter
Animals  (tags: animals, dolphin, porpoise, ocean, sea, japan, hunters, wildlife, wildanimals, suffering, sadness, cruelty, death, endangered, habitat, environment, protection, killing )

Tom
- 171 days ago - change.org
Every year Japanese fishermen, with the support of the Japanese government, slaughter thousands of dolphins in a brutal manner. Demand that Japanese law end this brutal slaughter of intelligent marine mammals and protect the health of the people of Japan!
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Oil Hunters Started Decimating Whale Populations as Early as 1800
Animals  (tags: animals, whales, oil, hunters, environment, endangered, extinction, humans, orcas, blue, sharks, thresher, porpoise, dolphin, new zealand, england, ocean, sea, fishing, science, investigation, research, study, discovery )

Tom
- 184 days ago - thaindian.com
One of several astonishing reconstructions of ocean life in olden days suggests that the ocean around New Zealand teemed with about 27,000 southern right whales, about 30 times as many as today, before oil hunters started to whaling in the early 1800s.
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Rescuers Back Off After NJ Porpoise Shows Off
Animals  (tags: porpoise, rescue attempt, wildanimals, AnimalWelfare, animals, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 251 days ago - google.com
Bobbing up and down in a placid lagoon, the young harbor porpoise faced off against a dozen people, four boats, two nets and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, all closing in on it Wednesday morning
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Speed Demons, Dalls Porpoise Little Bow Riders   video
Animals  (tags: porpoise, dalls, whales, wildlife, wildanimals, environment, conservation, animals )

Raven
- 345 days ago - youtube.com
Dalls Porpoise are often confused with baby orcas due to their black and white coloring. They are nicknamed Speed demons, traveling up to 35mph.. they love to bow ride boats . The native people called them rooster tails due to their stubby tails.
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Rarest Cetacean, the Vaquita Porpoise, Slipping Towards Extinction
Animals  (tags: animals, porpoise, extinction, protection, endangered, habitat, environment, wildlife )

Tom
- 627 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
International researchers report that the estimated population of Vaquita, a porpoise found only in the Gulf of California, is probably just two years away from reaching irreversible extinction. Scientists believe only about 150 Vaquita remain.
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