Sentences with phrase «growing whale population»

The warm waters provide a safe habitat for delivering and nursing their calves, contributing to the growing whale population in Australia.

It is argued by the whalers that growing whale populations will lead to an imbalance in the marine ecosystem, and that by distorting the marine food chain, recovering populations of whales will threaten global food security.

Not exact matches

Without ship strikes as a big factor holding the population back — and no other readily apparent human - caused reason (although noise, chemical pollution and interactions with fisheries may impact them)-- it is even more likely that the population is growing more slowly because whale numbers are reaching the habitat limit, something called the carrying capacity.

But with bowheads, which are slowly recovering from intense whaling in the 19th century, conservations groups would be highly motivated to buy all the shares for 13 years, until the population grows to the carrying capacity.

The East African humpback whale population is growing, so we might see more shark attacks in future, Dicken's paper suggests.

«Future challenges in Australia will be to protect a marine environment that contains growing humpback whale populations and to develop alternative approaches to ecological sustainability,» said Dr. David Johnston of Duke University USA, co-author of the study.

As of 2001, the Californian gray whale population had grown to about 26,000.

Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, the humpback whale population has grown in the last 20 years from 6,000 whales in the North Pacific Ocean, with 4,000 coming to Hawaii, to more than 21,000 whales existing today with approximately 10,000 traveling to Hawaii each year.

Since that time, the population has grown to 26,000, similar to what it was before modern - day whaling.

The Japanese argument is that the minke whale population around Antarctica has grown unnaturally large due to larger whales in the region being over-hunted in the past.