FEATURED VIDEO: ANIMALOGIC SPOTLIGHTS THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE VAQUITA
This short film from Animalogic takes viewers inside the Vaquita Refuge and aboard Sea Shepherd’s ships, showing how collaboration, enforcement, and science are keeping the world’s most endangered whale alive—against the odds.
The vaquita is the most endangered marine mammal in the world. About ten remain — confined to a single stretch of water in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California, where illegal fishing nets have pushed the species to the brink of extinction.
For over a decade, Sea Shepherd has worked alongside the Mexican Navy to defend the vaquita’s last refuge—removing illegal gillnets, supporting monitoring and enforcement, aiding scientific surveys, and maintaining a permanent ship-based presence in one of the world’s most dangerous trafficking zones.
This short film from Animalogic brings global attention to the crisis—and features voices from across the effort, including Sea Shepherd biologist Heidy Martínez, vaquita experts Dr. Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho and Dr. Barbara Taylor, who says: “The vaquita would have gone extinct if it wasn’t for Sea Shepherd.”
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