WWF Annual Report
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Fiscal 2013<br />
MAY<br />
38,000<br />
voices for the vaquita<br />
Mexico protects world’s smallest porpoise<br />
More than 38,000 people from 127 countries showed their support for the vaquita porpoise by<br />
signing an online petition. <strong>WWF</strong> launched the advocacy campaign at the beginning of the year to<br />
stop the fisheries bycatch of this critically endangered species. In June, the Mexican government<br />
announced a ban on the use of gillnets for shrimp fishing in the vaquita’s upper Gulf of California habitat.<br />
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