Near-Extinct Vaquita Gets Another Lifeline from the Courts

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By Natural Resources Defense CouncilNov 29, 2018, 12:00 pm130 pts
In a crucial win for the quickly vanishing vaquita porpoise, a federal appeals court sided with conservationists Wednesday when it upheld a ban on Mexican seafood imports caught with gillnets, which drown the endangered marine mammal. "Immediate pressure on Mexico to ban all gillnets in the upper Gulf of…

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