Just to be clear, some whales only recover very slowly. The blue whale is still considered Endangered, or the North Atlantic Right Whale (many more, probably -

Just to be clear, some whales only recover very slowly. The blue whale is still considered Endangered, or the North Atlantic Right Whale (many more, probably - I am not a whale expert, just an enthusiastic Wikipedia reader). And while they are slowly recovering, we are still changing their habitat (climate change, noise pollution, etc., being run over by large ships is a common cause of death for large whales) in ways that make it harder for them to recover. But the situation is not totally hopeless, which at least feels like a large improvement from the depressing atmosphere I grew up in.