East Australian Humpback whale bounces back from near extinction

Re:East Australian Humpback whale bounces back from near ext... by koheripbal on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:50AM (#23361964)

Timeline of Humpback whaling...

1700 - Early humpback whaling begins.

1844 - Invention of the explosive harpoon.

1904 - Whaling expands to the Antarctic. (massive decline in populations)

1966 - IWC banned commercial humpback whaling.

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Re:East Australian Humpback whale bounces back from near ext... by danaris on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:52AM (#23361983)

1985 - Captain Kirk and his crew arrive from 2286 in a captured Klingon Bird of Prey to retrieve a breeding pair of humpback whales to repopulate the species and save Earth from a random probe that wanted to talk to them

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Re:East Australian Humpback whale bounces back from near ext... by wsgeek on Saturday May 30, 2020 @02:35PM (#23363458)

Made my day :)

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Re:East Australian Humpback whale bounces back from near ext... by notduncansmith on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:20PM (#23362210)

2010 - still losing roughly 4,000 whales every year to whaling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baleines.png

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Re:East Australian Humpback whale bounces back from near ext... by koheripbal on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:29PM (#23362294)

That is a totally different species of whale.

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Re:East Australian Humpback whale bounces back from near ext... by notduncansmith on Saturday May 30, 2020 @03:27PM (#23363878)

I failed to notice, thanks for pointing that out.

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