Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Vaquita Conservation”
I’m extremely excited to be traveling to Sun Valley this coming weekend for the Idaho premiere of Sea of Shadows! Sun Valley Film Festival has been brining high caliber films and Hollywood celebrities to the mountains of Idaho since 2012. It’s mountain resort town location and celebrity guests have drawn numerous comparisons to Sundance Film Festival. But Sun Valley Film Festival …
In the spring of 2017 Wild Lens released the half hour documentary Souls of the Vermilion Sea about the struggle to save the vaquita, the world’s most endangered marine mammal. We had a very targeted outreach and distribution plan for this film – we wanted to use the documentary as a tool to influence the outcome of the issue through …
In the spring of 2017 fellow Wild Lens filmmaker Sean Bogle and myself were driving from my home in Boise, Idaho towards the Mexican border. We had just completed work on our 30-minute documentary film about the vaquita – the world’s most endangered marine mammal – and we were heading towards the epicenter of the vaquita issue – San Felipe, …
Click Here to Watch Souls of the Vermilion Sea on Amazon Prime! Wild Lens was born out of a strong desire to halt species declines and prevent wildlife extinctions. Our first film focused on the endangered California condor, a species that very narrowly escaped extinction in the 1980s. While working on that film, I interviewed many of the biologists who …
Click Here to Watch Souls of the Vermilion Sea on Amazon Prime! When fellow filmmaker Sean Bogle and I chose to take this project on and make a documentary (or several) about the vaquita, we had one clear goal – to have an impact on the outcome of the issue. We wanted to help prevent the extinction of the vaquita. …
For the past six weeks here on our blog we’ve been exploring a variety of ongoing efforts undertaken to prevent the extinction of the vaquita. Here we present all of this same information in podcast form, as an episode of our new audio series, The Vaquita Chronicles.
Something that we have noticed here at Wild Lens on many of the conservation projects that we’ve been involved with is a lack of cohesiveness and collaboration amongst different groups working on the same issue. While there have certainly been some really fantastic and beneficial collaborative efforts implemented to help address the vaquita issue, there have also been some troubling …
The vaquita capture effort was the most high profile attempt to prevent the vaquita’s extinction. Over 60 marine mammal experts were involved in the approximately two month long program designed to bring the vaquita into a captive environment. The stated goal of this program was the capture as many vaquita as possible – up to 15 animals, which was the …
Two organizations, Elephant Action League (EAL) and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), have conducted comprehensive undercover investigations into the illegal trade in totoaba swim bladders. These investigations provide crucial information to law enforcement agencies, theoretically allowing these agencies to take action to shut down these illegal supply chains. Remember – it is this illegal supply chain for totoaba swim …
At its heart, the vaquita issue is an economic issue. Most fisherman continue to use gillnets because they feel like they have no other means to earn a living. The importance of providing alternative livelihoods has been recognized for a long time – in 2008 the Mexican government offered buyouts to local fisherman, and also began testing alternative vaquita-friendly fishing …