Right Whale Babies Booming!
The North Atlantic Right Whales have been busy breeding this year! In April, when the season ended, it was thought that only 27 calves had been born. But a mother/calf pair that had been sighted off the Florida coast earlier has now been sighted in South Carolina waters and declared by the New England Aquarium to be the 28th NARW born this breeding season.
These whales were hunted almost to extinction until a moratorium was declared by the International Whaling Commission in 1986. Their recovery has been very slow, with the best year since the moratorium being 2001, with 31 mother/calf pairs sighted.
What great news! The North Atlantic Right Whales might be able to make it... there's hope... always hope!
Jay
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Jay - thank you for your visit to our blog, your comment and for linking to my post on the N.A. Right Whales. We are a new group blog, and very grateful and happy for any publicity. You have a very interesting site here yourself, and I will be back to visit. My beat on The Blue Voice is the environment, so we probably share some interests in common.
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