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Why is the whale endangered?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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Do you mean "Why ARE whales endangered?" Some are, some aren't. Most are endangered because of past intensive whaling. Today certain populations (e.g. North Atlantic right whales in the western North Atlantic) are struggling to increase because of ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear.

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