46 streamers are getting ready to go live for the vaquita.

The second Save The Vaquita Week runs 11–17 October, with artists, gamers, scientists and musicians on the schedule. The full schedule is below, in your timezone.

See the schedule Meet the vaquita

Streamers are going live for the vaquita, all week long.

46 streamers
47 sessions
7 days

Sunday 11 – Saturday 17 October 2026 · starts in

4 days, 9 hours, 16 minutes, 30 seconds

Meet the streamers

7–10

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 whole range was last surveyed in 2015, and the last estimate of the total population was for 2018.

CONANP · 2025 survey
reviewed 5 October 2026 · source: CONANP · 2025 survey (opens in a new tab)

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.

Read the whole story

This year’s schedule

times in UTC

Here is every stream across the seven days, shown in your timezone. Open one to see what the streamer has planned.

Times shown in UTC 21:43

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.

Read the full story Watch her on Twitch

Where the money goes

Every donation goes to the Porpoise Conservation Society (Porpoise.org), the world’s only NGO working solely on porpoises. Porpoise.org is a member of ¡VIVA Vaquita!, a coalition of non-profit organizations from around the world whose scientists, educators and conservationists work together to draw attention to the vaquita, the world’s most endangered marine mammal.

The coalition’s members share its goals of raising awareness, carrying out research and education, and keeping the Upper Gulf of California healthy, so the vaquita can be saved in a way that also brings long-term benefits to the fishermen and residents around the Gulf.

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