For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is critically endangered, rarely sighted, and only found in a tiny proportion of the ...

Around the world, fishermen use low-cost nets that sit like fences on coastal seafloors. Known as set gill nets, this type of gear is highly effective at catching fish when the mesh snags them by ...

Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho was in mourning. Beyond the windows of his hillside house in Ensenada, Mexico, the sun glinted brilliantly off the waters of the Pacific, but he'd drawn the curtains closed. In ...

According to The Friday Times, WWF-Pakistan has called gillnets a "silent but lethal threat" to marine life and biodiversity.

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Researchers at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research announced they successfully saved viable tissue cells from two rare and critically endangered vaquita porpoises.

A new survey found a larger-than-expected population of the world’s most endangered marine mammal, a small porpoise whose collapse has generated international contempt toward Mexico. Researchers in ...

BEIJING, China, December 29, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- The video series "Wild Yangtze" documents how cities along the Yangtze ...

One of the world's most endangered marine mammals could face extinction as soon as this year if an illegal fishing operation continues to tangle and kill the porpoises as bycatch. The vaquita, a ...

BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- China has released a plan of action to strengthen the systematic conservation of the Yangtze finless porpoise -- an iconic species of the Yangtze River -- over the ...

CAPE PORPOISE, Maine — The sun rises and sets each day, and the four seasons unfold throughout the year, yet there is a fleeting nature to these moments. If you miss them – if you sleep in, spend ...

YES. GOOD ONE. ED. YEAH. YOU REMEMBER A FEW YEARS AGO WE SAW A PORPOISE OUT IN THE DEEPER PART OF THE HARBOR, OVER THERE BY THE GAS TANK. THIS TIME ONE CAME INTO THIS. THIS SMALL INLET NEAR TINIAN ...

A porpoise has died after a group of beachgoers in Germany allegedly caught it and invited a group of almost two dozen children to hug and pet it, according to officials. Witnesses told a marine ...