Leon DiCaprio, Make Vaquitas, Not Wildlife Organization Enrichment, The Priority

      Dear Mr. Dicaprio, Before you continue with an alliance with certain wildlife organizations, be sure the money you encourage people to contribute helps animals. Be sure the money is not making rich animal organizations richer.
      It is unlikely the vaquitas will be saved from extinction, now that their numbers are thirty or less. 30 or less vaquitas spread over a large area fraught with danger lack genetic diversity. Even making their environment safer, no easy task, may not be enough to overcome the small gene pool left for these unfortunate porpoises. Nonetheless, the effort needs to be made. After all, when the last vaquita is gone, it is gone forever.
      An organization you encourage people to send money to listed the vaquita as one of their top conservation success stories in the year 2013. In 2013, vaquitas had a greater chance of being saved than now. Far too little was done, and no one should have been claiming success. It is a common story in the world of environmental and wildlife protection of far too little being done far too late. A number of wildlife and animal welfare organizations organization have grown incredibly rich since their inception, while overseeing a massive depopulation of wildlife worldwide coupled with a massive increase in animal cruelty.
     True wildlife protection, just like the protection of domestic animal species from cruelty, cannot be left in the hands of private nonprofit organizations that prove time and time again to be ineffective and even harmful. Organizations manipulate sentiment as the means of enriching themselves, while failing over and over to protect the very animals that bring them fortunes.