THE VAQUITA: ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION
Aug 08, 2017
3 minutes
Text by Chris Johnson, WWF-Australia Images by Chris Johnson, Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures/WWF
I NEVER DREAMED I WOULD SEE A VAQUITA, let alone film the animal in the wild. After spending almost eight weeks searching for this elusive animal on three different boats, for hours at a time in a desert sea, the stage was set. It was perfect weather to see one of Nature’s most reclusive marine mammals.
“They cannot see these near-invisible nets. They swim into them, become
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