First Lady Michelle Obama makes surprise visit to Para Los Niños, a Partner of Child360

First Lady Michelle Obama visited Para Los Niños' Tina and Rick J. Caruso Early Education Center, Los Angeles. photo: Para Los Niños

(PRNEWS) LOS ANGELES, November 19, 2018 - First Lady Michelle Obama visited Para Los Niños' Tina and Rick J. Caruso Early Education Center, an organization that receives program support from Child360 in the heart of LA's Skid Row, as a part of her Becoming book tour. During her visit to this exemplary program, Mrs. Obama had an opportunity to read three books and engage in a conversation with some of our nation's youngest learners.

World Animal Protection and partners find and remove life-threatening illegal gillnets in Vaquita habitat

Scientists with Vaquita CPR returned the first captured vaquita into Mexico’s

Gulf of California in mid-October. photo: Mexican Secretariat/OENR

With approximately 23 vaquita porpoises left on earth, team uses novel sonar scanning technology to find illegal nets in Mexico's Gulf of California
 
(PRNEWS/USNEWS) NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2017 - World Animal Protection, the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA), and Monterey Bay Diving joined forces with local fishermen in San Felipe, Mexico earlier this month to locate illegal gillnets in critical vaquita porpoise habitat. The vaquita porpoise is the world's most critically endangered marine mammal with just an estimated 23 individual vaquitas remaining in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Illegal fishing activity and the resulting abandoned gillnets, also known as ghost nets, are the single biggest cause of the vaquita's near eradication.