The first survey of Māui dolphins in 1985 estimated the total population at 134. Māui dolphins were seen regularly in the Taranaki area in the 1970s. A population abundance estimate released by the New Zealand Department of Conservation in 2012 revealed an estimated 55 Māui dolphins over the age of one remain
Because the population is so small, Maui's dolphins can only survive a single death at human hands every 10 to 23 years. But fishing alone kills about five Maui's dolphins each year.
Māui's dolphin or popoto is the world's rarest and smallest known subspecies of dolphin. Māui's dolphins and Hector's dolphin are the North Island and South Island subspecies of the New Zealand dolphin Cephalorhynchus hectori
Did you know: In 1985 a survey estimated the total numbers of Maui's dolphins at 134.
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