Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Mexico conservation”
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 …
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 …
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.
What is a Vaquita? This was the question that I asked of my friend and collaborator Sean Bogle when he called me in the summer of 2014 to tell me about an opportunity to work with the group Save the Whales on an advocacy and outreach campaign focused on this animal. The vaquita was completely unknown to me at the …
Episode Summary: Today on the show we’re talking with Dr. Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho who is the head of marine mammal conservation and research for the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change in Mexico. Lorenzo shares with us so much more than a basic history of the conservation of the Vaquita – he has an inside perspective on how conservation works …