Vaquita Update I: A New Totoaba Season Begins with no Assurance that Mexico...
Totoaba begin spawning in December in the shallow waters where the last vaquitas survive. With only around ten vaquitas left, it was hoped that the Convention on International Trade in Endangered...
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Vaquita Update II: Illegal fishing continues with impunity in the area where...
News article submitted by Barb Taylor and Jay Barlow On a visit to San Felipe, Mexico on 27-28 November, we witnessed illegal fishing-related activity with no sign of enforcement and no attempt by...
View ArticleUpdate on Cetacean Red List Assessments Published in 2022
IUCN published two Red List updates in 2022 – 2022-1 in July and 2022-2 in December. The new cetacean assessments reflected several recent taxonomic changes (see Committee on Taxonomy). Ramari’s...
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Yet Another Threat to Taiwanese White Dolphins Is Imminent
News item prepared by Randall Reeves (CSG Chair) and Louisa Ponnampalam and Brian Smith (CSG Asia Coordinators) On 13 February 2022, an article appeared on this website concerning the existential...
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Good News from the Zero Tolerance Area in late 2022: Less illegal gillnetting...
by Kristin Nowell, Cetacean Action Treasury In 2022 there was a major new development in the Zero Tolerance Area (ZTA), the 225 km2 polygon inside Mexico’s Vaquita Refuge in the Upper Gulf of...
View ArticleVaquitas get action from CITES as totoaba poaching resumes
By Barbara Taylor, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho and Kristin Nowell On 27 March 2023 the Secretariat of the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) notified signatory countries to...
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Vaquitas continue to surprise the world with their tenacity
Given the 45% annual decline estimated in 2018, most people expected Mexico’s vaquita porpoise to already be extinct. Scientists have just seen (May 2023) about the same number of vaquitas they saw in...
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Red List Status and Extinction Risk of the World’s Whales, Dolphins and...
From 2017 to 2021, the CSG reassessed nearly all currently recognized species of cetaceans (90 of 92 at that time) for the IUCN Red List. Regular updates regarding progress on this task, which...
View ArticleActions taken by Government of Mexico are insufficient to save the vaquita
On 6-10 November the CITES Standing Committee will consider Mexico’s August 2023 Progress and Results Report on its Compliance Action Plan to Prevent Fishing for and Illegal Trade in Totoaba, their...
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Escalating Threat to Marine Wildlife from Trade Demand for Croaker Fish Swim...
Vaquita and tototaba on a totoabera net. Photo O. Vidal The CSG has a long history of engaging in efforts to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction due to bycatch in gillnets targeting the totoaba...
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