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Judi Lynn

(160,649 posts)
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 06:39 PM Jul 2016

Mexico launches drones to protect endangered porpoise

Mexico launches drones to protect endangered porpoise

By Laurent Thomet (AFP) 3 hours ago in World.

Mexico's government has launched drones to back last-ditch efforts to prevent illegal fishing activities that have led to the near extinction of the vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise.

The navy and the environment ministry on Thursday unveiled three Arcturus T-20 unmanned aerial vehicles, armed with high-resolution cameras to police the upper Gulf of California day and night.

It is the latest step taken by the government to save the vaquita, a species found only in a small area of Mexico's northwest gulf.

"There is a lot left to be done and time is a decisive factor," Admiral Vidal Francisco Soberon, the navy's chief, said. "We can't allow our seas to see another species disappear."

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/mexico-launches-drones-to-protect-endangered-porpoise/article/471298#ixzz4Fq9VtzFX

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Mexico launches drones to protect endangered porpoise (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2016 OP
Finally. A drone with a porpoise. forest444 Jul 2016 #1
Good call! It is unexpected seeing this effort to help the helpless coming from an oligarchy. n/t Judi Lynn Jul 2016 #2

forest444

(5,902 posts)
1. Finally. A drone with a porpoise.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 07:35 PM
Jul 2016


Seriously though, this is very impressive - all the more so coming from a country with so many problems. Whatever else could be said of Peña Nieto and Mexican governments in general, this really speaks incredibly well of them.
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