In a dire attempt to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise population, conservation groups are suing the Trump Administration in an effort to sanction Mexico for its illegal fishing activities, which have the species teetering on the brink of extinction.
The Center for Biological Diversity and Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior, hoping to pressure the government to make a long-awaited decision about banning all fish and wildlife imports from Mexico. According to the lawsuit, Mexico’s involvement in these illegal industries diminishes the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a treaty meant to prevent international trade from driving animals to extinction.
Endemic to Mexico’s Gulf of California, the vaquita is the world’s rarest and most endangered marine mammal, with only 10 remaining in the wild. In early March of this year, a local fisherman reported a drowned vaquita caught in a Mexican gillnet, likely used for totoaba fishing. If action isn’t taken against illegal gillnet fishing, which is responsible for the majority of vaquita deaths over the last 30 years, all of the world’s vaquita will likely die, as their numbers have dwindled from 560 in the 1990s to 10 or fewer today. Mexico banned the practice in 2017, but the government has not enforced the new law.
“We’ve tried advocacy, we’ve tried diplomacy, but we’re near the vaquita’s end,” Sarah Uhlemann, international program director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. “Economic pressure is necessary to force Mexico to finally wake up and stop the vaquita’s extinction.”
This may be our last chance to save these animals, which are the world’s smallest cetacean, a group that includes both porpoises and whales.
What’s New…
Stop killing ❗️
This is critical. Save sentient beings
This is critical. Save sentient beings
Stop these illegal fishing activities!!!
Anyone who would lay a vicious hand on one of these innocent sentient precious sweet beings need to be smitten in a manner that will leave them plagued or critically maimed as a reminder of the transgression toward the sinless and the most innocent amongst us!!! The voiceless animals!
La crudeltà sugli animali è vile e disgustosa , questi subumani sono assassini e una società civile non può più tollerarli !!!
I want to help.
PURE GREED!!!!!
My brain doesnt comprehend this illogical greed over the future of this planet with our children on it.
Gandhi:
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.
I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
Please help save this endangered gentle ocean mammal. There may still be time.
I support saving the last 10 but that species doesn’t have enough Genetic Diversity to continue only having 10 left. It’ll only breed mutations… 😢 sad
Pour le respect de la vie animale
Humans are determined to destroy our Planet there is no peace for non-human beings and marine mammals likewise, despite the fact that the world is utter and total chaos, the killing of sentient beings carries on….since when did humans start hating the rest of the living beings, these human parasites who cause immense suffering on animals when caught the justice system is inadequate in handing down sentencing, therefore, these parasites go on to another animal, our governments lack empathy for the voiceless, despite the fact that the general public have been urging for the government support, they prefer to sit on the fence, we have been asking the government to ban Trophy Hunting the UK has still not made a decision since the middle of 2019, our governments do not care about animal because by stopping the killing of animals is not going to bring in revenue of money, but the biggest threat is our government ignorance is causing is the demise of human survival, loss of rainforest, loss of wildlife is going to bring in utter and total loss of the our very environment which in turns effects our very being, the Universe is teaching us lessons of respecting the rest of Mother Earth’s creation but humans are still not learning, what else is waiting for us….
Gillnet fishing should be illegal! Please stop allowing humans to destroy every living creature on this earth! Do your jobs! Take care of the animals on this planet they deserve to live here peacefully and unharmed as much as we do ..more!
Mexico does not care about any species. They allowed a rare jaguar to be killed that crossed from the US border into Mexico. The Vaquitas need to be removed and repopulated in a protected area with or without Mexico’s help.
Boy cott this country do not buy any thing oof visit
My thoughts are with these 10 beautiful beings…
protect and promote the species
Stop playing with these savage evil barbarians. Same treatment. No jail taxpayers cannot be expected to feed thrm there!!!!!!
Keep up the pressure on American and Mexican authorities! Thank you for your superb work!
HERE’S HOPING THE VAQUITAS MAKE A GOOD STRONG COME BACK.
What a disgraceful indictment on the human race. The fact that we think we are so superior that we would be involved in allowing an animal to go extinct is beyond reprehensible.
For gods sake grow up and smell the roses.
Ten left? Is that even enough for them to continue?
Asking why this was even allowed to happen is useless.
Thank you, Mexico, for bringing these animals to the brink of extinction.
I wish you had more compassion and caring for animals. We already know you do not.
The survivors need to be relocated to an area that can give them sanctuary.
Ten left? Is that even enough for them to continue?
Asking why this was even allowed to happen is useless.
Thank you, Mexico, for bringing these animals to the brink of extinction.
I wish you had more compassion and caring for animals. We already know you do not.
The survivors need to be relocated to an area that can give them sanctuary.
10 left!!? I hope they can come back. I hope that Mexico wakes up to itself.
Thank you 💜
Asking Trump to help animals? Well, let’s have some great prayers that it works. The Mexican will not stop until the ocean is completely emptied. But let’s hope that we will have a “human” president next November if its not too late.
I believe our society as a whole is going insane. We will be leaving nothing for future generations.
It would be great to save those vaquitas but it has to be done without delay.
Save and protect
A suit should not be necessary these animals should be protected and would be if Trump would sustain the enforcement
on Mexico!
Please do this