The world’s smallest dolphin species will go extinct in the next 15 years, warns a new research, if proper conservation efforts are not carried out. Just 50 Maui’s dolphins, a subspecies of Hector’s dolphins that is endemic to New Zealand, remain in the world today, according to a study presented at a meeting of the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), in San Diego, US. out of the 50 just 10 to 12 are adult female. The report also suggests that the population had dropped 97 per cent because of fishing since the 1970s.
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