Secret to this. This is the fact this morning. On the planet could soon be lost. With an International Team of scientists is determined not to let that happen now its a race against time to try and save a species. Intervention. I would say. The hail mary. Is a Technical Innovations that can change life were going to explore the intersection of heart and humanity and were doing it in a unique way this is science by scientists. The vet keita is the most endangered Marine Mammal is a naturally elusive this has never been captured tagged was studied up close by marine biologists. Techno is married to davison and chris would deal with take a crisis thats in the motions to stave off extinction the gulf of california one of the most beautiful marine sanctuaries in the world it is here in the target gulf waters at the edge of the Baja California desert the worlds smallest cetacean has found a home power when all the money that one of the earth everybody does yes. America because of the motive. What you have and the wreckage that is found nowhere else right this is the only place that it exists yes exactly this is the only place this is and they make these issues. Whether someone is with ok only we can find if youre not on the place in the war mexico we are so lucky to have these as these 4 boys belongs in mexico you know if they but get them both here if you are. Given us in a hole is an acoustic researcher for mexicos government sponsored iraqi to rescue project today to stop when his team plan to deploy several submerged will see pods or underwater listening devices the pods are used to track but keep us his research picked up the Early Warning signs that indicated the bucky the population was crushing the data is sent to researchers in san diego crystal dilworth has that part of the story tell me what is that the key to and why do you love them so much the cases are especially i think a lovely part as because they have a nice paint job they have sort of like black mascara black lipstick her about a coffee going. Few scientists have studied the key to as intended. As Barbara Taylor she heads up in advance Genetic Laboratory based at the u. S. National oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in San Diego California her main partner there renzo rowe has braccio who heads up the mexican project is equally passionate about saving the key to losing the key to know in a way its just a minute unison master if someone destroys that your condo or. Whatever the world be expecting is that nothing is going to change youre going to wake up in the morning youre going to help but the world is going to be poorer in many many ways and i think that the situation with. I think where enzo and i always thought. We can say that you know we knew it was one issue with drought was and we thought we could change it yeah and its. Its a hard thing to to see you know hot its not happening. So what is killing the vicky according to scientists the main culprit is gill nets used to capture and another endangered species found the gulf of california a fish named the 12 according to the Environmental Investigation Agency demand for to can be traced to china where it is sold illegally and we got a tip off about the concorde which is also in Southern China is on the coast which is said to be a major center for trade in terms of the fish more some chinese believe the dry swim bladder at the to 12 improve skin and liver conditions and figure a circulation and stops bleeding none of this has been proven medically but the illegal trade into 12 is extremely lucrative. To 12 a fishing in the gulf is illegal because the same nets used to catch and snare the keita they have decimated the key to population. Techno xm radio davidson was shown how the pros that they were i could not but they believed this was in their work for the brewer keeper can you get in time with their hair here or order the order to free him so obviously theyre like you theyre going to rip to the surface and then they get things so they just get stuck here with you and they perish theyre going to break. I found 3 adult that vikki does since we started operation milagro and 2 new nets preborn vikki this and i dont actually think its all of them were neck crapsey and the results of the examination show that theyre all die of a 6 year and all had like marks of nets under 16 so they dying because of the that is for sure you know leo is captain of the sea shepherd a Marine Conservation group that voluntarily patrols the a proposal 442125 dead rocky to us were found in the gulf from january to may 2017 its a horrific to see how much Sea Creatures are trapped on those nets its heartbreaking for this protected Marine Mammals are dying for no reason or just die and mr to lie about it its its horrible. The story of the vacuum is a classic collapse of a species scientists began tracking back in the late 1990 s. And we determined 20 years ago that the fishing ban was unsustainable for bakita they would we predicted that they would be declining about this problem for 20 years. Well i mean the people who originally found them found them dead on the beach. From fishing nets and said hey heres a porpoise nobodys ever found a porpoise here it cant be very common and its dying in fishing nets and so shes was discovered because it was dying yeah it was found dead on beaches and in fishing dubs you know its sort of odd that people wouldnt see it but the more you get to know this shy animal the more you understand that you really have to know what youre looking for and you really have to look for them to see them because they avoid any motorised vessel and theyre really small theyre only in groups of one or 2 so theyre really difficult to see they are like the flashy dolphins and come up and ride your bowel and you know you get to see every aspect of their lives and porpoises are very shy they move away and so you really have to look for them with like really big binoculars with us on the brink of extinction the team made a decision that was as bold as it was all day ships in order to save the bucky the remaining population now numbering less than 30 would have to be taken into captivity the plan was implemented in november 2016 at the age of service the International Committee to save the baccy the only option is separate. From the main respects regarded skilling. For 12 agreements at this point in time and also i mean there are of knowns but what we really know is that if we dont take them out they wouldnt get so this is the lesser of 2 evils you know so its black or white techno was given preliminary plans that spell out how to capture the elusive but keep us and bring them to the northernmost cove in the gulf where they would be held in sea pens and kept under guard 24 hours a day 7 days a week there are also plans for land based tanks systems and support apparatus to. Keep the capture porpoises alive in case of emergency where weve brought in this amazing team were going to have about 40 people from all over the world all with Different Levels of expertise and we have specialists and capturing harbor porpoises from denmark and the netherlands we have veterinarians that have worked with porpoises from hong kong to to the netherlands we have people who have specialized in taking capturing so we have that that team that we have the team of people who i work with that are experts in finding them will be using both acoustics and visual and were even going to be bringing in maybe dolphins to help us try to track this really elusive species the u. S. Navys Marine Mammal program utilizes bottlenose dolphins to locate underwater sea mines little is known about the vacuum no one has ever tag them or been able to study them up close the problem of how to capture them and large but during a Scientific Team meeting a breakthrough from a scientist who works with the navy program in here that you can ever think of using maybe dont fence or miller and i mean thats completely out of my. Way through books and she said well you know if they can find diverse and objects in the water and sure they could find what you. Next day we went to the maybe facility for years they trained the dolphins they took them to the golden gate in San Francisco where they have harbor porpoises swimming in the dolphins wherever to find it so when we sold that part who seem to be the most difficult one through well. Here we are. Im floating in the middle of the bucky the refuge area here in the gulf of california now this refuge was set up by the Mexican Government to protect the back of the populations or whats left of them theyve set up here because over the past several years through observation and through acoustic recordings this is where the rocky does really tend to hang out at least recently weve been out here for a while trying to see if we can find anybody thats no surprise to me that we havent seen any and that really underscores how difficult and complex this mission is really going to be stuff as Data Analysis indicates the remaining buckey of the population may be concentrating across 3 sections in the upper part of the gulf todays sea pod drop will try to confirm those locations so weve just arrived at one of the points where theyre going to drop down a moring and attach to that is going to be potus so its the acoustic measuring device that they leave for 4 months here to measure and and pick up the sounds of the vacuum clicks so thats what weve done weve weve navigated here via via g. P. S. Its a really vast area and theyve set up a c. At the put in place 87. 00 theyre going to put out 87. 00 of the c. Pods right now were putting up the last 8. Years. Later back on shore showed us a Computer Program that allows us to hear the bucky humans can hear the clicks because theyre too High Frequency but theres a way for you to modify them so that we actually could have you listen to this of course Michael Walker oh my. The bass in wiley by the program and now you. Are looking for wow. The bucket the refuge measures in area 64 by nearly 100 kilometers along the upper 3rd of the gulf of california when you are in it the refuge seems vast and problematic to police effectively. Since 2005 gill net fishing has been banned here but the real story is much different. Especially. It is pretty dramatic and crazy every night its so busy it never stops we have ramis ing radars on our bridge of the time time when and if its and on us radars we can see the new activity at nights because poachers really go out at night the night of march 11th 2017 was busier than most of the sea shepherds farley mowat here on patrol for poachers spotted a small fishing boat in the back of the refuge. And when we see a target ladies we get our ship as close as possible and then the drone team is going to be ready to drop the drone was able to film is illegal fishermen with what appeared to be a boat flew over 12 of the fishermen noticed the trone and began hurling objects at it then we get the 4th age old. Fisherman retreating to 2 odd minutes getting to a 2 hour bus i call to. Tell them to position. Tell them what were seeing at the same time and and then they calm and they tried to arrest them the next day the ship cut another seemingly bolder Group Fishing in broad daylight this was the 1st time the drone was able to capture full daylight images of a boat load of coach to 12 and to a 12 ounce can the big problem is money just like always this Illegal Fishing activity for to 2 hours brings out a lot of money because china is opening the black market that is attracting a lot of organized crime says its a 2 hour bus and batteries sold for more than 20000. 00 a kilo of course when you come to those fishing villages where the minimum wage is so low and they can make 5000. 00 a kilo locally with a with one. Swim bladder. The Mexican Government has invested so far over a 1000000000 barrels in compensating fishermen unfun sublime got 40 isnt a scientist but he cochairs the baccy the rescue program in mexico he created a plan to use economic incentives to keep your nets out of the gulf for the past 2 years mexico has paid fishermen not to fish until alternative gear that dont kill becky could be developed you can imagine going to the communities and trying to convince families not to go back and fish which is what they have been doing for generations thats who they are right as part of their identity i would say and thats the whole purpose also of these programs to have them go back and fish but being able to do so without arguing but you know. Its important for mexico to save the the from extinction and i would do its equivalent to the same efforts as china has been doing to save panda mexicos efforts have seen mixed results progress has been made but the numbers dont lie the bucky is almost gone there recently that we are where we are its because our fishing overages have failed to come with alternative fishing gear for 2 decades i mean thats incredible they havent been able to do it even if i had 20 years ago if they had hired mit or who would have already something. But the preacher is barman has a monopole embury the only one tests alternative theories with thats horrible. It is Early Morning in ensign on the mexico techno has been invited to travel out to the Pacific Ocean to see where the bucket the rescue plan is truly taking shape these pens belong to bottle farms a mexican tuna Farming Company the bakkies a rescue team turned to them for help we are aware of the natural these big problem we have the big danger of losing the bike you know so we are aware of that we are delighted to be part of or. Is the Operations Manager of a quad youll see on the a c pen designed to give tourists an up close view of the tuna farming business this plan is currently located off the coast of ensign out of mexico on the pacific side of Baja California and contains hundreds of bluefin tuna but before long it will be moved to the gulf of california and if all goes well with a back to the rescue effort instead of china there will be back keep us swimming within it be bunko provided renderings of the redesigned bucket the pan which feature 2 observation tubs this tourist attraction will become a Floating Laboratory you know were looking at the tuna in the observation area it struck me that theyre feeding very close to the surface and thats not normally how they feed right. So theyve had to learn a new way of feeding and that will essentially be the case for them i keep them i suppose so. As far as i know the rocky days eating the same thing that the dolphins 2 of the open ocean that i mean they are eating small fish and sweet things play out there for when those kind of organisms of the ocean differently they reckon. Avion is going to learn how to eat the rocky the pan will be taken here to the northernmost end of the gulf in an area called much or a cove gustava showed us the area during our gulf tour the blue building im sure is an old trick Processing Plant that will be converted to an on site Veterinary Care center so you think thats the best shot absolutely its not only the best shot but its the only shot that we have were going to have facilities in the ocean were going to have some also limited land and were also looking to one of the. Most important pieces of these projects is to have a facility right in the heart of the key. Area where we can have vets where we can have 247 care for but keep those there we can be monitoring them we can learn a little bit more about but there is a little opposition to the rescue plan within the Scientific Community but conservation groups led by the Sea Shepherd Society believe the problem should be solved without captivity jabber has always been fighting against captivity cultivates it for me its not a solution and 1st ship is not a solution because saving anymore is not having it in a Swimming Pool and it should be free and leaving its life and contributing to the eco system kind of a maybe its not working right now and plan b. Those 2 means not. There are many questions surrounding the capture program but if scientists are successful the next step in the process will be to try and breed that you keep scientists in san diego are getting ready these will be the ancestors of all the cute and into the future this Breeding Program so we need to make sure that we know what weve got and keep that variation that natural genetic variation in that population into the future phillip more in were expected to keep the rescue team. In san diego hes a Research Molecular geneticist is that the key to can be successfully bred in captivity he will have to figure out how to make the genetics work so that they keep a special because it lacks this genetic diversity that other species do how is it managed to survive for so long so what we believe happens in a population like species like the key to it is that theyve been there to small population size for a long time so the bad person has slowly been purged from the species so that means they have less of the bad diversity they also have less of the good diversity. But in a stable environment like the northern gulf of california theyve managed to survive and there is still diversity is not to say they have none because of this lack of diversity in the vicky is it possible to accidentally do harm to the species through the Breeding Programs that youre developing. Yes yeah i mean there is no way to avoid that were going to lose diversity. Theres no way to avoid that bec