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Can conservationists save the vaquita dolphin from extinction?

Illegal fishing of the endangered totoaba fish in Mexico, to satisfy a lucrative black market in China, is also killing the rare vaquita dolphin, which is caught in the nets.

David Hance, chief operating officer of the campaign group Sea Shepherd, tells the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Russell Padmore the illegal fishing in the Gulf of California is supported by Mexican drugs cartels.

(Picture: A dead vaquita porpoise trapped in an illegal net. Sea Shepherd image.)

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