What has Wild Lens done since the Release of Souls of the Vermilion Sea to help the vaquita and the local community?

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, …

The Ghost Net Removal Program

  The remote acoustic monitoring program discussed in our previous post is not the only way that local fisherman are getting involved in vaquita conservation.  The ghost net removal program also relies on participation from within the community, and this program is also having a significant impact on the vaquita issue.  The program is designed to remove gillnets from the …