Vaquita Population 2024 Today. Vaquita, the world's rarest marine mammal, is on the edge of extinction. The 2024 vaquita survey will examine the endemic species that exists only in a small.
Over the past decade, vaquita numbers plummeted from 576 to just ten individuals because of the rise in the illegal totoaba trade, reports the guardian’s karen mcveigh. The plight of cetaceans—whales, dolphins, and porpoises—as a whole is exemplified by the rapid decline.