World's smallest porpoise nearing extinction in Mexico

Environmentalists have warned Mexico's vaquita marina — the world's smallest porpoise — is facing imminent extinction with the Government reporting only 60 were found late last year.

The World Wildlife Fund is urging Mexican authorities to "immediately and indefinitely" close all fisheries in the upper Gulf of California or risk losing the species forever.

The vaquita's rapidly declining population has been blamed on accidental entanglement in gillnets.

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