Traces of the world's rarest marine mammal in 15 gallons of seawater on our first try! #Vaquita porpoise environmental DNA from ZTA off San Felipe. 2x positives: standard hydrophone sampling sites - red ⭕ eDNA 🔵 vaquita acoustic encounters
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Congratulations to Ensenada's Wendlandt Cervecería - #Vaquita marina pale ale won a silver medal in the 2024 World Beer Cup® in Las Vegas!
This brewery's first beer got its name & mission via one of its first customers renowned biologist Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho
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Good article by Daniel Cressey covering both Mexican whale rescue network #RABEN - of which San Felipe is newest chapter - & No Atlantic right whale, which parallels #vaquita porpoise - lobstermen mostly opposed to gear transition & have political allies in state gov & elected reps.

Use of traditional hook and line to catch totoaba would disentangle vaquita from Mexico's organized crime problem

Since the cartel battle in El Golfo de Santa Clara a month ago, ongoing operations have resulted in 21 people arrested & several kidnap victims freed; fishing nets & a boat among the seizures of weapons, ammo, drugs & vehicles
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The best way to get a birds eye view from San Felipe out over the #Vaquita Refuge is to take a flight with local ultralight pilot Rafa Sertkol!
Article in San Felipe Breeze magazine online, interview starts on page 20
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A sweet #vaquit

WE. LOVE. THIS. PORPOISE.

...and we must protect it. It's the only one we have.

#EarthDay is #Vaquita Day. Pass it on.

'The ecology of fear?' Intense experience witnessing killer whales hunt & strand a fin whale south of San Felipe in Jan 2019 is incl in recent paper voiceofsandiego.org/wp-content/upl… which IDs adult male leader E261 as a specialist hunter of large whales over 21 years off both Baja coasts.

Great article covering all the important details from the #vaquita survey announcement event - good job Verónica Santamaría!

Good article by Rachael H Funnell in IFLScience needs a good accompanying #vaquita porpoise photo, fixed it for you (📷Jonas Teilmann)

Great news that with 2024 support from CONANP we can continue with our partners to help develop & grow the AMMAG community citizen science & marine mammal rescue teams in San Felipe
Atención a Mamíferos Marinos del Alto Golfo 💙🐬🐋🦭
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