Environmental groups slam Biden’s vaquita response

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US President’s decision has “diminished the effectiveness” of CITES, say members of the environmental NGO community 

US President Joe Biden’s decision not to embargo products from Mexico despite the country’s failure to halt illegal wildlife trade threatening the critically endangered vaquita porpoise has drawn fire from the environmental NGO community.

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