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Existing whistleblower program could help save endangered species including the VAQUITA:
NOAA and USFWS have received funding for years to establish a program to reward whistleblowers who report trafficking of protected wildlife:
Read more: http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/missed-opportunity-vaquita-whistleblowers
Save (insert your favorite species here) and the VAQUITA.
Write your representative and ask them to support using existing whistleblower laws to protect wildlife.
https://www.whistleblowers.org/campaigns/empower-global-wildlife-whistleblowers/
Help save the Vaquita. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is the only ones actively removing the gillnets that are literally walls of death.
https://seashepherd.org/campaigns/milagro/