News — SouthAtlanticWhaleExtinction

Now the list presented to you in this series every week are by no means exhaustive accounts of all the positive news there are; they are merely offerings shared with you to inspire hope. That said, here’s what we’re celebrating this week: 1. Western South Atlantic Humpback Whales are Making a Comeback After Near Extinction According to recent studies, a key population of humpback whales is in recovery after it was pushed close to extinction by centuries of exploitation. These are the Western South Atlantic humpbacks and there were reduced to a few hundred in population back in the 1950s,...

Now the list presented to you in this series every week are by no means exhaustive accounts of all the positive news there are; they are merely offerings shared with you to inspire hope. That said, here’s what we’re celebrating this week: 1. Western South Atlantic Humpback Whales are Making a Comeback After Near Extinction According to recent studies, a key population of humpback whales is in recovery after it was pushed close to extinction by centuries of exploitation. These are the Western South Atlantic humpbacks and there were reduced to a few hundred in population back in the 1950s,...