Humpback Whale Population Bounces Back From Near-Extinction – From Just 450, to Over 25,000
Conservationists are rejoicing after new research showed that whales in the South Atlantic have rebounded from the brink of extinction.
Intense pressure from the whaling industry in the early 1900s saw the western South Atlantic population of humpbacks diminish to only 450 whales, after approximately 25,000 of the mammals were hunted within 12 years.
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