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Sunday 11 October · day 1 of 7
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48 streamers are going live for the vaquita between now and Saturday 17 October.
Drop into whichever stream is on. Each streamer talks about the porpoise as they go, so you can start anywhere without having watched earlier in the week.
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
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.
Donate or become a supporter
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.
Become a vaquita supporter
Supporters get news about the vaquita and a heads-up whenever there’s a petition to sign or a letter to send. It’s about six emails a year.