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 …
What is a Vaquita?
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 …