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This is very important!!!

These beautiful animals are the vaquitas, the world’s smallest and most endangered porpoise. There are an estimated 12-30 remaining in the wild and their numbers have been rapidly declining due to being caught in illegal fishing nets.

APROXIMATELY 36 ARE KILLED EACH YEAR. THERE ARE ONLY 30 LEFT. THIS COULD BE THEIR LAST YEAR IF WE DON’T DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!

Donate to conservation foundations like the WWF who work to protect vaquitas! We need to keep this beautiful animal on our planet!!!

Please share this post so we can spread awarness because hardly anyone knows about them!!!

Unfortunately, these are something of a zombie species. There’s nowhere safe to move them to, and the poaching in their native habitat isn’t about to stop any time soon. Even if it did, there might not be enough of them left alive for the population to rebound.

I wish we could save them, but we have very limited conservation resources, and we need to focus on keystone species. Cute as they are, vaquitas are pretty much doomed. Donating is great, but it’s probably best to donate to foundations that work to save animals that have a chance to be saved.