Vaquita Footage Released

Dec 4, 2008 Written by Chris Johnson

earthOCEAN Media is releasing video footage and photographs of the rare and endangered Vaquita porpoise to educate the general public about its plight.

Background -

On October 19, 2008 documentary filmmaker and photographer Chris Johnson captured rare video footage of the Vaquita porpoise. From October-November 2008, he was documenting “Expedition Vaquita” in the northern Gulf of California Mexico, a multi-national scientifitic survey led by the Instituto Nacional de Ecologia in Ensenada (INE) and NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California.

The online documentary project was funded by a grant from The Ocean Foundation in Washington, DC. WHALE TRACKERS is a series of documentary programs that journey across the world’s oceans to explore the lives of whales, dolphins and porpoises. Website – www.whaletrackers.com

From these online reports, our aim is to produce a 50 minute documentary film entitled “The Search for the Desert Porpoise“. This will be available in english and spanish in 2009. For more information, contact us

To request to use vaquita imagery contact us.

Chris Johnson – Filmmaker – earthOCEAN media. Email
Phone – +61-449-188-770 (Australia)