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The blue whale was abundant in nearly all the Earth's oceans until the end of the 19th century. It was hunted almost to the point of extinction by whalers until the International Whaling Commission banned all blue whale hunting in 1966. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed blue whales as Endangered as of 2018.
The decline of global whale populations Blue whale populations have declined dramatically due to unregulated commercial whaling, putting them at risk of extinction.. Prior to the setting up of the IWC in 1946, unregulated whaling had depleted a number of whale populations to a significant extent, and several whales species were severely endangered.
Blue whale: Appendix I: Endangered migratory species: Appendix I: species that are the most endangered: Endangered (EN) Considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild. Tursiops truncatus: Common bottlenose dolphin: Appendix II: may become endangered unless trade is closely controlled: Least concern (LC or LR/lc) Lowest risk.
As many whales begin to leave their protected zones in search of warmer waters, boats should take extra precautions. The post The Latest Whale Species Facing Extinction and What’s NOT Being Done ...
The creatures are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s “Red List” of critically endangered species. Only about 35 of them are still believed to be alive, and their ...
The endangered species label is a result of whale-hunting during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the 1960s, blue whales were given international protection , and hunting the species was ...
Rorquals (/ ˈ r ɔːr k w əl z /) are the largest group of baleen whales, comprising the family Balaenopteridae, which contains nine extant species in two genera.They include the largest known animal that has ever lived, the blue whale, which can reach 180 tonnes (200 short tons), and the fin whale, which reaches 120 tonnes (130 short tons); even the smallest of the group, the northern minke ...
“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed ...