Vaquita Quotes

“I remembered Lorenzo telling me that CNN had approached him to do a piece on vaquita, but they wanted them leaping out of the water. He had to say, no, vaquitas don’t do that. So, CNN never came.”
― Brooke Bessesen, Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez

“Barb once told me, “You’d think that with the most endangered marine mammal on Earth, that you’d be able to get someone like National Geographic or Animal Planet to be interested. But they won’t touch it. They want full-frame underwater video, and if they can’t have that, tough, the species gets to go extinct.”
― Brooke Bessesen, Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez