{"id":381500,"date":"2025-11-15T20:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381500\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T20:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:47:10","slug":"the-last-vaquita-an-abc-10news-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381500\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Vaquita &#8212; An ABC 10News Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 The world&#8217;s smallest and most endangered marine mammal may have a fighting chance at survival after scientists documented a mother vaquita swimming with her calf during the 2025 annual survey in Mexico&#8217;s Sea of Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>The vaquita, an elusive porpoise with distinctive black rings around its eyes and lips, is found only in the upper Gulf of California. This unique species with a rounded head and short beak has adapted to the warm waters off San Felipe, Mexico, thousands of miles from its nearest relative in Peru.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Edge of Extinction: The Last Vaquita,&#8221; ABC 10News anchor Kimberly Hunt travels to Mexico and spends time with researchers aboard the Sea Shepherd vessel as they fight to save the world&#8217;s smallest porpoise.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full special in the video player at the top of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 The world&#8217;s smallest and most endangered marine mammal may have a fighting chance at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[182680,182681,182682,172405,53181,4301,53070,182683,182684,182685,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-381500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-conservation-society","9":"tag-endangered-marine-mammals","10":"tag-gillnet-fishing","11":"tag-gulf-of-california","12":"tag-illegal-fishing","13":"tag-marine-biology","14":"tag-marine-conservation","15":"tag-mexican-navy","16":"tag-mexico-wildlife","17":"tag-porpoise","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115555679811819386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}