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| Whale Tail off of the Valdes peninsula |
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| Earth from Above series. After summering in the Arctic, whales return to the southern seas each winter to reproduce. From July to November, the coasts of the Valdes peninsula in Argentina become the site where whales mate and bear their young. This migratory marine mammal, of which there are eleven different types, has fallen victim in recent decades to intensive exploitation that nearly drove it to extinction. International protection measures were adopted in 1931, and starting in 1986 there have been several moratoriums outlawing the hunting of whales for commercial use. Their numbers have now stabilized, but the populations remain too small to rule out the risk of extintion. In fact, each species of whale today only has a few thousand living individuals These numbers are 10 to 60 times lower than estimates made at the start of the twentieth century. By Yann Arthus Bertrand. |
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