CIRVA, the international recovery team for the vaquita, has asked an international group of experts to consider ex situ (out-of-habitat) options for conservation of the species. These options include the capture and housing of vaquitas in the Gulf of California. You can read about this approach in a news piece in Science. Presidents Pena Nieto and Obama recently announced a series of measures designed to protect the vaquita, including a long-awaited permanent ban on the use of gill nets throughout the range of the species. Read the Whitehouse news release here.
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