Numbers of the rare vaquita
porpoise, which only lives in the upper Gulf of California in Mexico, may now have dropped to less than ten according to research published today in Royal Society Open Science.
In 2012, conservation group WWF complained to the European Commission that the UK government hadn't set up any protected areas for the harbour
porpoise.
A WIRRAL hovercraft crew leapt into action to rescue a stranded
porpoise they spotted on a Wirral beach.
A pod of dolphins (and their
porpoise friend, Petey) is in trouble.
Such glimpses of the shy Yangtze finless
porpoise, the only aquatic mammal left in China's longest river and known in Chinese as the 'smiling angel' for its perma-grin, are increasingly rare.
That's very encouraging," said Wang Ding, 60, a
porpoise expert with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Chatto & Windus, an imprint of publishing house Vintage, has acquired UK and Commonwealth (ex Canada) rights to a new novel by Mark Haddon, titled The
Porpoise, literary news company The Bookseller revealed on Tuesday.
Rod Penrose, Wales Strandings Co-ordinator for the CSIP, said: "It is not unusual to find harbour
porpoise stranded at this time of year.
A SEASIDE village was left mystified when the rotting body of a
porpoise was found stuffed into a suitcase on the beach.
The most recent incident happened on Bank Holiday Monday, when the Wirral Coastguard Rescue Team found a
porpoise on the beach close to Tower Grounds, washed up from the River Mersey.
In May 2016, a half-eaten, 5ft-long
porpoise was found on a beach at Happisburg, Norfolk.