I have no idea why I waited so long, but I finally changed my blog to https://vlogvaquita.com/. It won’t affect any previous links to https://goldenliontamarin.wordpress.com/, they will redirect to the new site. It’ll just make it easier to find my blog.
Daily Archives: April 16, 2012
Artists Wanted competition
Vote for Guillermo Munro Colosio (a.k.a. Memuco, see work below) in the Artists Wanted competition. If he wins, he will donate all of the money to the Vaquita! Click here and click the “Collect Me” icon on the top of the screen. Please choose Guillermo (Memuco)!
Another Memuco painting
Another fantastic illustration from Memuco!
CIRVA
The Mexican government assembled a committee of international experts to assess the necessary methods to save the Vaquita. The International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA) previously met in 1997, 1999, and 2004. Members of CIRVA met again in February 2012 and reviewed progress of the Vaquita since the last meeting. The CIRVA recommendations are in this report:
Executive summary in Spanish: http://bit.ly/ID2sQS
In English: http://bit.ly/Hrgm92
The Vaquita population is still declining and is probably made up of under 200 individual Vaquitas.
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