Porpoise

When members of the marine mammal team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare rush to a Cape Cod beach to help a stranded dolphin or porpoise, they have no choice but to treat the endangered animal on site and then immediately release it.

That is about to change.

Vaquita porpoises are on the edge of extinction, with just 10 left in their sole habitat within Mexico's Gulf of California.

However, a new study published in the journal Science offers some hope: the world's rarest marine mammals aren't doomed by a lack of genetic diversity, and can recover if illegal "gillnet" fishing ceases immediately.

The Romanian presidency of the Council of the European Union has reached another provisional agreement with the European Parliament in fishery, informs a press release of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR).

Experts with Greece's Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute removed up to 100 plastic bags from the belly of a whale that was found dead off the coast of the holiday island of Myconos, the body's director, Alexandros Frantzis, told Skai TV on Thursday.