• Stamets@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    I grew up in kayaking with humpback whales. This news makes me really happy. I hope more get to experience that now too.

    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.de
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      1 年前

      This seems to be either quite old or just talking about the atlantic population. Wikipedia says the global population is around 120.000. Which is amazing, as there where only a couple thousand left when the hunt was banned in the sixties. Just thought that would make you happy to know.

      Edit: just noticed who I was answering to, Stamets will probably not even see this…

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      The movie Star Trek 4 was a large contributing factor to public awareness of whaling and other threats to the humpback whale species.

      The movie involved time travel, and taking a pair of whales from 1986 to a future where they were already extinct.