Is The Vaquita Extinct 2024 In Usa. Two ships (seahorse and sirena de la noche), staffed with scientists whose combined experience studying marine mammals totaled around 400 years, surveyed the northern gulf of california hoping to find and track. If the vaquita is protected and the gillnet deaths stop completely, the team estimated that there would only be a 6 percent chance that the porpoise would go extinct in.

Native and unique to the northern end of the gulf of california in northwestern mexico, the vaquita porpoise was declared critically endangered by the international union for. Vaquita were projected to be extinct by 2021, but still hang on by a thread.