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Last-ditch attempt to save world's most endangered porpoise gets go-ahead

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Funds approved for plan to round up last 30 vaquitas into protective 'sea pens'.

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Nicholls, H. Last-ditch attempt to save world's most endangered porpoise gets go-ahead. Nature (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.21791

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