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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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