A study published in Science Advances provides evidence that large-scale, offshore, and fully-protected marine areas (MPAs) protect biodiversity without negatively impacting fishing and food security. In the first-ever “before and after” assessment of the impact of establishing Mexico’s Revillagigedo National Park on the fishing industry, a team of U.S. and Mexican researchers found that Mexico’s industrial […]
The vaquita, a small porpoise on the verge of extinction, is still hanging in there, said scientists who had spotted about a dozen specimens of Mexico’s “panda of the sea” on an expedition in May 2023. The vaquita is the smallest of all porpoises, similar to dolphins but with shorter beaks and more rounded bodies. […]
Mexico has acknowledged that it faces sanctions from the international wildlife body CITES for not doing enough to protect the vaquita marina, a small porpoise that is the world’s most endangered marine mammal. The sanctions have not yet been announced, but they could make it difficult for Mexico to export some regulated animal and plant products like […]