In my latest piece on
how Chinese appetites for an endangered
fish are indirectly driving Mexico's
tiny porpoise, the vaquita, to extinction, I passingly mentioned the world's other deeply imperiled toothed whale — New Zealand's Maui's dolphin.
The article described
how a computer wizard at Skytruth, based in Shepherdstown, W. Va., was able to help a poaching patrol in Palau, a
tiny Pacific island nation with a vast marine economic zone, intercept a rogue Taiwanese
fishing vessel fleeing toward Indonesia.