Episode Summary: Dr. Barbara Taylor is on a life-long mission to save the vaquita from extinction. She has been working with this critically endangered porpoise for over 30 years, and although her specialty is in population genetics, she has branched out to many different fields in her pursuit of this goal. Barbara gives us a breakdown of how vaquita conservation …
“Think Tank” CIRVA Meets At 2015 International Whaling Commission Conference
The 2015 International Whaling Commission Conference https://iwc.int/sc66a is underway. During this conference I briefly attended an exclusive meeting by the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA). In 1996, CIRVA was established by the Mexican Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries. CIRVA’s primary goal is to develop a recovery plan based on the best scientific evidence. It …