{"id":2770,"date":"2017-06-14T19:08:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2017-06-14T19:18:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:18:29","slug":"vaquita-update-june-2017-next-step-to-try-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?p=2770","title":{"rendered":"Vaquita Update June 2017: Next Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/SAVE-THE-VAQUITA-Copyright-WhaleTimes-ALL-RIGHTS-RESERVED.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1917 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/SAVE-THE-VAQUITA-Copyright-WhaleTimes-ALL-RIGHTS-RESERVED-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Fifty vaquitas left, no,\u00a0thirty, wait&#8230;seven more found dead in the last few months. The news is bleak\u00a0for vaquitas as the population\u00a0continues to decline.<\/p>\n<p>A vaquita is a\u00a0porpoise and the most endangered whale\u00a0 in the world. Less than 30 survive.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to stop illegal fishing of the (critically endangered) totoaba and use of gillnets has\u00a0been at the forefront of scientists and the Mexican\u00a0Government. Unfortunately,\u00a0vaquitas\u00a0(and totoabas) continue to die.\u00a0With the latest CIRVA report, scientists now believe the only way to save vaquita from extinction is to try to capture\u00a0the porpoises and put them in safety away from gillnets.\u00a0&#8220;The Mexican government and its conservation partners have organized a live capture effort to try to save the vaquita from extinction&#8230;.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Vaquita-Update-June-2017-Courtesy-Oregon-Coast-Aquarium.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more in this Vaquita Update <\/a>(courtesy of the Oregon Coast Aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>When you eat seafood,\u00a0and only eat or buy\u00a0sustainable seafood.\u00a0 Find out how: <a href=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WHAT-IS-SUSTAINABLE-Save-the-Vaquita-k5-Booklet-1-Fact-Sheets.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What is Sustainable?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are you doing everything you can to\u00a0protect the ocean? Take the <a href=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Activity-30-Days-to-a-Sustainable-You-Save-the-Vaquita-k5-Booklet-2-051017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30 Days to a Sustainable You Survey\u00a0<\/a>and find out.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The power to protect\u00a0ocean animals like the vaquita is in <strong>your<\/strong> hands.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty vaquitas left, no,\u00a0thirty, wait&#8230;seven more found dead in the last few months. The news is bleak\u00a0for vaquitas as the population\u00a0continues to decline. A vaquita is a\u00a0porpoise and the most endangered whale\u00a0 in the world. Less than 30 survive. Efforts to stop illegal fishing of the (critically endangered) totoaba and use of gillnets has\u00a0been at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?p=2770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42,41,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gray-whales-celebration-of-conservation","category-sustainable-seafood","category-vaquita","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}