PROFEPA

An administrative body of the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources established in 1992 in Mexico. Its main task is to increase the compliance of environmental protection regulations and to enforce the rights to protect the environment.

The ‘sea cow’ loses its battle against poachers

The ‘sea cow’ loses its battle against poachers

The California porpoise, also known as the Gulf of California harbour porpoise, which inhabits nearshore areas of the northern part of the Gulf of California in Mexico, is vulnerable to extinction. Although cetaceans have been protected for many years, they still fall into poachers’ trammels. – Now there are only thirty of them – confirmed […]