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100 1 Bessesen, Brooke,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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245 10 Vaquita :|bscience, politics, and crime in the Sea of
Cortez /|cBrooke Bessesen ; foreword by Carl Safina.
264 1 Washington, DC :|bIsland Press,|c[2018]
264 4 |c©2018
300 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) :|billustrations, map
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and
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505 0 Foreword -- "Goodbye Baiji" -- Prologue -- The dead girl -
- Resource extraction -- Chasing a myth -- Tangled agendas
-- Death, drugs, and accountability -- Pirates on patrol -
- Searching for Vaquita -- Hearing is believing -- Science
in the sea -- Witnessing extinction -- Saving Bigfoot --
Sending out an SOS -- Meet the totoaba -- Last-ditch
effort -- Hope is a life raft (with a persistent leak) --
Epilogue.
520 "In 2006, the last of China's Yangtze river dolphins--
baiji--succumbed to extinction, and la vaquita marina, a
diminutive porpoise endemic to the Upper Gulf of
California, quietly and without fanfare inherited the
title of world's most endangered marine mammal. Unlike
many other critically endangered species, the vaquita is
not hunted. Nor is its habitat disappearing or degraded.
The species is even protected by law. Why then have its
numbers plummeted to near extinction when few humans have
seen it live in the wild? The answer lies in a shadowy mix
of international cartels, fishermen entrapped by politics
and culture, and an unlikely fish called the totoaba. In
this haunting story, Brooke Bessesen sets out to Mexico's
Upper Gulf region to untangle the intricacies of the
biology, acoustical science, and international intrigues
behind the vaquita's decline. She interviews townspeople,
fishermen, politicians, scientists, and activists, teasing
apart a complex story filled with villains and heroes, a
story whose outcome is unclear. When diplomatic and
political efforts to save the little porpoise fail,
Bessesen follows a team of veterinary experts in a
binational effort to capture the last remaining vaquitas
and breed them in captivity--the best hope for their
survival."--Jacket.
546 Text in English.
588 0 Print version record.
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655 4 Electronic books.
700 1 Safina, Carl,|d1955-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aBessesen, Brooke.|tVaquita.|dWashington,
DC : Island Press, [2018]|z9781610919319|w(DLC)
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