{"id":13820,"date":"2023-08-07T11:24:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T05:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13820"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:04:52","slug":"vaquita-porpoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vaquita-porpoise\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaquita Porpoise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Vaquita Porpoise<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the world\u2019s <strong>smallest cetacean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is unique among the porpoises as it is the only species of <strong>that family found in warm waters, <\/strong>and the size of the dorsal fin is believed to be an adaptation to that, allowing for extra body heat to dissipate.<\/li>\n<li>The name vaquita means &#8220;<strong>little cow&#8221; in Spanish.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has the smallest range of any whale, dolphin or porpoise, and only lives in a small 1,500 square-mile <strong>area in Mexico\u2019s upper Gulf of California<\/strong>, near the town of San Felipe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has a large <strong>dark ring around its eyes and dark patches<\/strong> on its lips that form a thin line from the mouth to the pectoral fins.<\/li>\n<li>It only measures up to five feet in size.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threat<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The vaquita population has been declining precipitously for decades due to <strong>bycatch in gillnet set to catch shrimp and fish, including totoaba<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN: <\/strong>Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<li><strong>CITES: <\/strong>Appendix I<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Key facts about International Whaling Commission<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was set up under the <strong>International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling<\/strong> (ICRW) which was signed in Washington DC in 1946.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> To provide for the <strong>proper conservation of whale stocks<\/strong> and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarter:<\/strong> Impington, near Cambridge, England.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Cetaceans?<\/h3>\n<p>Cetaceans are a group of marine mammals that include whales, dolphins, and porpoises. They are well-adapted to life in aquatic environments and have a variety of unique features that enable them to thrive in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/plight-of-the-vaquita-forces-international-whaling-commission-to-issue-first-extinction-alert-91057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Plight of the vaquita forces International Whaling Commission to issue first extinction alert<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaquita Porpoise is unique among the porpoises as it is the only species of that family found in warm waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}