Conservation+Issue

Baja California is a very beatiful area with a great variety of wild life. In order to keep it that way, we need to help stop:

= = =Shrimp Trawling:=

Trawling is a type of fishing that involves dragging a fish net the water. This is having a great affect on the population of vaquita marinas. A Vaquita marina is a small porpoise which lives only in Mexico's Upper Gulf of California. There are 150 vaquita marinas left in existence, this is a result of shrimp trawling. In an attempt to protect vaquitas, fisherman are exchanging there harmful fishing gear for vaquita safe fishing gear and also Mexico is trying to establish a no fishing area in the place that the vaquitas are.



=Desert Climate:=

Baja California has a climate that is extremely dry. The average rainfall in Baja is between 12 to 24 inches per year. Most of the rain comes in the winter which means there is no water hydrating the grass grown is Baja. This is why there is alot of desert area in Baja California. A desert that is in Baja California is named The Sonoran Desert. The Sonorana Desert is split up into 4 different sub-regions. The driest of the four sub-regions is the San Felipe Desert. The San Felipe Desert gets 5cm an average per year. The sub-region that receives the most moisture is the Golf Coast Desert. It recieves all of its moisture from tropical storms and nearby mountains that create arroyos and underground streams. An arroyo is a small steep-sided water course or gulch with a nearly flat floor: usually dry except after heavy rains. The largest sub-region is the Vizcaino Desert. The precipitation in this desert is low. The plants in this desert get there precipitation from fog from the coast.

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