Catching them requires using illegal gillnets that often pull up the endemic vaquita (Phocoena sinus), whose population numbers have dwindled to just 10 individuals, according to the report.

Put together, Phocoena sinus is the “porpoise of the Gulf of California.” The species is also known as the cochito, yet this common name is used to describe several marine animals in the geographic ...

This photo released by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and taken in February 1992 in the Santa Clara Gulf off Sonora, Mexico, shows a “Vaquita Marina” (Phocoena sinus) apparently dead after ...

Vaquita (Phocoena sinus). Please credit Paula Olson / NOAA. Image is available for media use. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 ...

Mexico City, Mexico – With an estimated 30 or fewer individuals remaining, the vaquita are the focus of new WWF analysis released today calling for immediate collective action to protect the species.