CASE STUDY Saving the Vaquita from Imminent Extinction Ways the Marisla Foundation has stepped outside its traditional grantmaker role What’s essential to ocean funding when it’s geared toward saving a species on the brink of extinction? For the Marisla Foundation, a private foundation whose environmental giving focuses largely on marine conservation, being open to taking on roles beyond what it normally does as a grantmaker has been critical. That’s been the case in its fight to save the vaquita, especially as the species has declined more rapidly in recent years. Marisla’s support to the vaquita stems from a long history of marine mammal conservation funding due to its founder’s passion for whales and dolphins. The foundation had already made grants to support other endan

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