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Vaquitas (Phocoena sinus) continue to die from bycatch not pollutants. [PDF]

Vet Rec, 2020
BackgroundThe vaquita of Mexico is critically endangered, with a population less than 19 individuals in 2018. The population continues to decline and gillnet use continues in vaquita habitat.MethodsNine vaquita carcases were examined from 2016 to 2018 to establish cause of death.
Gulland F, Danil K, Bolton J, Ylitalo G, Okrucky RS, Rebolledo F, Alexander-Beloch C, Brownell RL, Mesnick S, Lefebvre K, Smith CR, Thomas PO, Rojas-Bracho L.   +12 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Response: Commentary: State of knowledge of the population of the vaquita (Phocoena sinus) from the Upper Gulf of California: a bibliometric analysis

Frontiers in Conservation Science
FRANCISCO Arreguín-Sánchez, Manuel J Zetina-Rejón, Pablo Del Monte-Luna   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

VaQuitA: Enhancing Alignment in LLM-Assisted Video Understanding

CoRR, 2023
Recent advancements in language-model-based video understanding have been progressing at a remarkable pace, spurred by the introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the focus of prior research has been predominantly on devising a projection layer that maps video features to tokens, an approach that is both rudimentary and inefficient.
Yizhou Wang 0006, Ruiyi Zhang 0002, Haoliang Wang, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Yun Fu 0001, Gang Wu 0013   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Batallas en El Desierto: El Surgimiento de los Narcobucheros y el Tráfico Ilegal de Totoaba en el Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Río Colorado.

Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña, 2020
Durante la década de 2010, el Alto Golfo de California cobró una presencia mediática importante debido a la acelerada pérdida de biodiversidad que ocurría en sus aguas.
Alejandro Bonada Chavarría
doaj   +1 more source

Science, society, and flagship species: social and political history as keys to conservation outcomes in the Gulf of California

Ecology and Society, 2016
Socio-political issues are important in environmental policy outcomes but are often overlooked in conservation planning. We analyze the effects of historical social, political, and ecological contexts on conservation policy outcomes as applied to the ...
Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor, Amanda CJ. Vincent   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nutrient input from the Colorado River to the northern Gulf of California is not required to maintain a productive pelagic ecosystem

Ciencias Marinas, 2015
The high phytoplankton production (PP) of the northern Gulf of California (NGC) supports a rich biodiversity and fisheries with high yields. The NGC is the habitat of the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), the cetacean most at risk of extinction in the world ...
Mario Rafael Ramírez-León, Saúl Álvarez-Borrego, Cuauhtémoc Turrent-Thompson, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Gisela Heckel Dziendzielewski   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stakeholder consensus suggests strategies to promote sustainability in an artisanal fishery with high rates of poaching and marine mammal bycatch

People and Nature, 2023
Illegal fishing for high value species in artisanal fisheries drives incidental catch and declines of marine mammals and other large vertebrates of conservation importance around the world.
Linas Svolkinas, George Holmes, Lilia Dmitrieva, Ilya Ermolin, Pavel Suvorkov, Simon J. Goodman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A field effort to capture critically endangered vaquitas Phocoena sinus for protection from entanglement in illegal gillnets

Endangered Species Research, 2019
In 2017 an emergency field effort was undertaken in an attempt to prevent the extinction of the world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita Phocoena sinus. The rescue effort involved 90 experts from 9 countries and cost US$ 5 million.
Rojas-Bracho, L, Gulland, FMD, Smith, CR, Taylor, B, Wells, RS, Thomas, PO, Bauer, B, Heide-Jørgensen, MP, Teilmann, J, Dietz, R, Balle, JD, Jensen, MV, Sinding, MHS, Jaramillo-Legorreta, A, Abel, G, Read, AJ, Westgate, AJ, Colegrove, K, Gomez, F, Martz, K, Rebolledo, R, Ridgway, S, Rowles, T, van Elk, CE, Boehm, J, Cardenas-Hinojosa, G, Constandse, R, Nieto-Garcia, E, Phillips, W, Sabio, D, Sanchez, R, Sweeney, J, Townsend, F, Vivanco, J, Vivanco, JC, Walker, S   +35 more
doaj   +1 more source

An increase in detection rates of the critically endangered Baltic Proper harbor porpoise in Swedish waters in recent years

Conservation Science and Practice, 2021
The Baltic Proper harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is currently listed as critically endangered (CR), with the Static Acoustic Monitoring of the Baltic Sea Harbor Porpoise (SAMBAH) project concluding that only ~500 individuals remain.
Kylie Owen, Martin Sköld, Julia Carlström   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life History Parameters of Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphins Sousa plumbea Off KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT For the effective conservation of coastal cetaceans, such as Indian Ocean humpback dolphin, Sousa plumbea, currently listed as “Endangered” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), information on its life history is urgently required.
Stephanie Plön, Natasha Roussouw, Zianca Nolte, William P. Froneman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source