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Vaquitas still exist, but barely: sea 'panda' survey
AFP, Published on 08/06/2023
» MEXICO CITY - The vaquita, a small porpoise on the verge of extinction, is still hanging in there, said scientists Wednesday who had spotted about a dozen specimens of Mexico's "panda of the sea" on an expedition in May.
French court orders fishing bans to protect dolphins
AFP, Published on 20/03/2023
» PARIS - France's top administrative court on Monday ordered the government to ban fishing in parts of the Atlantic to protect dolphins which have washed up dead in their hundreds.
Turtles and see-through frogs on agenda at wildlife summit
AFP, Published on 22/11/2022
» PANAMA CITY - A global wildlife summit in Panama will decide whether to take measures to protect the translucent glass frog and 12 types of freshwater turtles in its final week, which kicked off Monday.
Mexico seeks 'miracle' to save near-extinct vaquita porpoise
AFP, Published on 06/04/2022
» SAN FELIPE, Mexico: Mexican naval vessels, spotter planes and conservationists are patrolling the upper Gulf of California in a race against time to save the world's rarest marine mammal from extinction.
Mexico announces new steps to protect near-extinct porpoise
AFP, Published on 15/07/2021
» MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government on Wednesday announced new measures aimed at saving the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, the world's rarest marine mammal.
Biodiversity 'hot spots' devastated in warming world
AFP, Published on 09/04/2021
» PARIS - Unless nations dramatically improve on carbon cutting pledges made under the 2015 Paris climate treaty, the planet's richest concentrations of animal and plant life will be irreversibly ravaged by global warming, scientists warned Friday.
Face masks pollute Hong Kong beaches
AFP, Published on 05/06/2020
» HONG KONG: Surgical masks are washing up in growing quantities on the shores of Hong Kong, a city that has overwhelmingly embraced face coverings to fight the coronavirus.
Wildlife protections tightened as southern Africa protests
AFP, Published on 29/08/2019
» GENEVA - A global wildlife summit has decided to regulate trade in giraffes and tighten protections for endangered animals including elephants, triggering a threat from disgruntled southern African nations to leave an international treaty.
Conservationists urge Mexico trade sanctions over near-extinct porpoise
AFP, Published on 24/08/2019
» GENEVA - Conservationists are urging countries to slap trade sanctions on Mexico over its failure to rein in illegal fishing that could doom the vaquita marina porpoise to extinction within months.
Smiling at danger, China’s finless porpoise fights to survive
AFP, Published on 20/12/2018
» WUHAN (CHINA) - In an oxbow lake along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a breathy sigh pierces the surface stillness as one of China’s most endangered animals comes up for a gulp of hazy air.