These Whales Went From 450 to 25,000 🐋 #Shorts #LessonToday
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Three takeaways
Humpback whales in the western South Atlantic, the population that breeds off Brazil and feeds near South Georgia, numbered about 27,000 in 1830.
Modern whaling hit them hard: between 1904 and 1926 more than 25,000 were killed, and by the late 1950s only about 450 were left, roughly 1.6% of the original population.
After whaling of this population ended in 1972 and the whales were protected, they bounced back.