Thank you to the 48 streamers who went live for the vaquita in 2026, and to everyone who watched.

For many of their viewers it was the first time they had heard of this porpoise. Save The Vaquita Week will be back next year.

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  • 48 streamers
  • 49 sessions
  • 107 hours on air
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different vaquitas seen during the 2025 survey, including at least one calf. That is a count of the animals observers saw in a small search area, not a population estimate. The last survey to estimate the whole population was in 2015, and the most recent estimate, for 2018, came from acoustic monitoring.

Nobody knows exactly how many are left

Since 2019 the surveys have counted individuals seen in one small search area rather than estimating the whole population. Scientists have not called a firm trend in that time, and the numbers in circulation are not comparable to each other.

The 2025 survey still found vaquitas alive, feeding and raising calves, mostly in and around the sanctuary, so there is a population left to protect.

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The 2026 event, as it happened

11–17 October 2026

Here is every stream that took place. We are immensely grateful to everyone who participated as a streamer, helped out in chat as an ambassador, watched or donated.

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  1. 5 sessions
    • CassWArt
    • HopeMartinArtist
    • CinnaMonro3
    +2 more on Sun 11 Oct
  2. 7 sessions
    • KaseySnowArt
    • Pinkedalink
    • SquirmVT
    +4 more on Mon 12 Oct
  3. 9 sessions
    • Streaming together KakiMoisi & Vipoke_Gribouille
    • stRoOoObLe
    • bird_beech
    +5 more on Tue 13 Oct
  4. 8 sessions
    • mellemony
    • Maaya
    • DrawCuriosity
    +5 more on Wed 14 Oct
  5. 8 sessions
    • Crack3DFoxStudio
    • Rainbow_Rat_Art
    • BeAtEasel
    +5 more on Thu 15 Oct
  6. 6 sessions
    • baronofbile
    • HannuhHobby
    • Schlaacka
    +3 more on Fri 16 Oct
  7. 6 sessions
    • CarsonDrewIt
    • DarkMuppeteer
    • pookarah
    +3 more on Sat 17 Oct
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Illustration of a vaquita rising towards the surface, a trail of bubbles above it

What’s killing them

Vaquitas drown in nets set for totoaba

Vaquitas drown in gillnets, which are walls of near-invisible mesh hung in the water. Most are set illegally for totoaba, a fish whose swim bladder sells for enormous sums abroad. A vaquita swimming past cannot see the mesh, and it drowns when it gets tangled.

Stopping it depends on enforcement and on shutting down the trafficking market. The people who fish the Upper Gulf for a living aren’t the cause.

How the nets work

Ways you can join

Stream

Stream whatever you already stream, at a time that suits you, and we’ll send viewers your way.

Registration is closed for this year.

Be an ambassador

Be the friendly vaquita guide in a streamer’s chat, answering viewers’ questions so the streamer can keep creating. We give you a briefing pack with every answer in it.

Registration is closed for this year.

Become a supporter

 Supporters hear from us when there’s a petition to sign or news about the vaquita. You can also sign whatever is open right now. About six emails a year.

Read the participation rules.

Kasey Snow, smiling, in a T-shirt with a drawing of a vaquita and her calf

Where this came from

Kasey Snow started Save The Vaquita Week

Kasey is an artist who streams on Twitch as KaseySnowArt. She had the idea, organized the first event herself in 2025, and still organizes it with support from the Porpoise Conservation Society (Porpoise.org) and the BC Marine Mammal Rescue Society.

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