Environment | Oceans, August 22nd, 2022

At the Gulf of Guayaquil, where over 20 rivers in Ecuador and Peru feed into the largest estuarine ecosystem on South America’s Pacific coast, bottlenose dolphins once thrived. However, a steep decline in their numbers by 50% since the early 1990sㅡprimarily driven by increasing human activityㅡis endangering the local population.