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Fishery bycatch rapidly driving Mexico's vaquita to extinction

One of the most sophisticated networks of acoustic detectors ever developed for wildlife science has documented a devastating 34 percent per year decline of Mexico's critically endangered Vaquita porpoise, according to a new study published this week in the journal Conservation Biology. The vaquita, a porpoise that lives only in the upper Gulf of California, Mexico, is the world's smallest  and rarest marine mammal [Credit: Sea...

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