Any tourist activity that involves getting close to their habitat can stress the animals and disrupt their natural behavior.

So in 2005 the Mexican government took action again, establishing a Vaquita Refuge Area and the “Program for the Protection of the Vaquita.” The Mexican government transferred more than US$1 million ...

While the Mexican government has taken various steps to protect the vaquita over the past two decades, including establishing a vaquita refuge area, it has never committed the resources needed for ...

For example, officials will ban fishing in an area wider than the ZTA for seven days only if 60 illegal boats have ... given that authorities have failed for decades to control illegal fishing in the ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shortly after scientists discovered the species in 1950, they realized it was in trouble. Vaquitas were regularly ...

MONTREAL— After a two-year delay, the Council of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement finally voted today to investigate Mexico’s failure to protect its critically endangered and endemic vaquita ...