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Over the first two weeks of my research, I kept my focus on the Vaquita, as pictured to the right. I started by getting the population of the vaquita from 1997 to 2021, which is graphed below. The population went from about 567 in 1997 to about 6 individual vaquitas in 2021. After I collected the population data, I made a timeline of the conservation efforts that people have made. In 2017, VaquitaCPR, Conserve Protect and Rescue, failed to bring two vaquitas into captivity because they went into shock and one died due to it.
By Alfokrads - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
After I researched the vaquita, I went and looked into the spectacled porpoise, as pictured to the right. What I found with that porpoise is that there is very little known about it. In January 2017, an individual porpoise washed up onto the shores of the Falkland Islands. The porpoise was then given to the Natural History Museum to be studied. The scientists found a crab inside of the stomach of the porpoise, but they could not figure out if the crab was the true prey of the spectacled porpoise, or if it was just accidental digestion.
By Frédérique Lucas - Artist, CC BY-SA 4.0
I am starting to get the population data for the Yangtze Finless Porpoise and the goal for the coming week is to get data on the conservation efforts that have been put in place. Below is a population graph of the Yangtze Finless Porpoise. I will look into the history of how people reacted to the extinction of the Baiji, which is a dolphin that lived in the Yangtze River.
By Huangdan2060 - Own work, CC BY 3.0
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