Today National Geographic released the official trailer for Sea of Shadows, as well as a new design for the movie poster. We also got an official release date for the US theater run: July 12th! Here’s the new movie poster:
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, …
Collaboration is Key to Conservation
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
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 …
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 …
Where does the Vaquita Live?
Listen to this episode in iTunes The vaquita’s home is a truly unique area of marine habitat in the Northern Gulf of California. The area is unique for a number of reasons. Situated at the delta of the Colorado River, for the last five million years this massive river system has been dumping sediment into the Northern Gulf, creating …
Why is the Vaquita Almost Extinct?
Listen to this episode in iTunes If you’re wondering what a vaquita is, you should first check out our previous blog article, which answers this question in great detail. I’ll tell you here, that the vaquita is species of porpoise (a marine mammal related to whales and dolphins) found only in the Northern Gulf of California in Mexico – …
EOC 030: Vaquita Conservation in Mexico with “Mr. Vaquita” Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho
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 …
EOC 028: Barbara Taylor’s Mission to Save the Vaquita
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 …