gallery 2 gallery 3 gallery 4 GALLERY – Click on images to enlarge. Watch the documentary Vaquita – Last Chance for the Desert Porpoise – now online! The Vaquita is the world’s smallest porpoise. They live only in the northern reaches of the Gulf of California, Mexico. Scientists estimate that 250 animals remain. This shy, [...]

The race to save the vaquita, a tiny porpoise living in the northern Gulf of California, began in earnest this week with the launch of an international campaign in Ensenada, Mexico.

gallery 3 gallery 4 gallery 5 gallery 6 gallery 7 GALLERY We interview scientist Robert Pitman of the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California. In November 2006, where he participated in an international expedition on the Yangtze River in China, searching for the critically endangered river dolphin called ‘baiji’. The expedition failed [...]

earthOCEAN speak with scientist Robert Pitman, of the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California. He recently returned from China, where he participated in an international expedition, searching for the critically endangered river dolphin called ‘baiji’. View the guide for Teachers.