Once close to extinction, western South Atlantic humpback population close to full recovery

Mongabay
Oct 22, 2019, 5:07 pm191 pts
New research finds that the western South Atlantic humpback population is well on its way to recovering from the devastating impacts of commercial whaling. Whaling took a large toll on the global humpback population between the late 1700s and the mid-1900s, with as many as 300,000 whales estimated to have been…

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