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An Arizona Illustrated Special - La Vaquita

Efforts to save the most endangered marine animal on earth — the vaquita.

Producer Vanessa Barchfield takes us on a journey to the Sea of Cortez where the most endangered marine mammal on earth is fighting for survival against overwhelming odds. Only 12 vaquitas, a small porpoise that lives in the salty waters of the Upper Gulf of California, are estimated to remain.

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