URGENT, PLEASE SIGN & SHARE~ The critically endangered vaquita - a tiny porpoise inhabiting Mexicos Gulf of California - is teetering on the brink of extinction. Only 97 vaquita remain, down from 200 in 2012, and scientists say the porpoise may be extinct by 2018. Entanglement in fishing gear is the greatest danger to vaquitas, especially in fishing nets set for another endangered species called the totoaba, a giant marine fish. Its illegal to fish or export totoaba, but theres a growing black market for the fishs bladder, which is used in China to make a supposedly fertility-boosting soup. A single totoaba bladder can sell for $14,000 -- a business so lucrative that Mexican drug cartels have joined the totoaba bladder trade. Mexico must step up and stop the illegal totoaba trafficking, before it drives two species -- the totoaba and the vaquita -- to extinction. Tell the Obama administration to use its full authority to sanction Mexico for failing to take strong and immediate enforcement action.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:29:24 +0000
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