Why are humpback whales endangered and why don't we save them?

Question

im the biggest fan of whales especially humpbacks so why do people treat them so cruely??? its just inhumaine

Answer 1

they are endangered the same as my wolves people hunted them to near extinction. Except they thought wolves were vermin and needed to die thankfully most of our species are protected from cruelty. and hunting If we help support the foundations that help them we can save them. I love every animal on earth and I DO put animals in front of humans because they actually treat earth with respect!

Answer 2

Humpback and many other whales are fully protected and are making a comeback.

The reason for their drastic decline was commercial whaling - which also destroyed the whale stocks for many native peoples who carried out low level whaling to survive. These days, nobody will starve without whaling and so there is no need for it to occur.

It is cruel - because it takes a long time to kill the animal and many get away seriously injured. Also, there was no holds barred - mothers with young or who were pregnant were especially susceptible and so for one kill often more than one whale died in the process.

Answer 3

Humpback whales are endangered for many reasons, reasons that trace back to the 1700-1800s when whaling was a big time industry and whales were hunted almost to extinction.  Japan continues to hunt whales, but since most people burn oil found under ground instead of whale oil we have the luxury of feeling sorry for the whales.  Whale oil has also been used in the perfume industry and once skirts were made using whale bone.  In the past there were more reasons for hunting whales then there are today.

Like any resource whales need to be managed; that is enough need to be preserved to keep the species healthy, but killing them is not necessarily an evil act either.

We have also since discovered that whales are more intelligent than we thought so whaling may not seem like a good idea.  But, dogs are intelligent and some people in Asia still look at them as a good source of food.

Killing humpback whales isn't nice, but mass killing of cows isn't nice either; what did your steak dinner or hamburger ever do to offend you?  We sacrifice some animals to eat and survive, that is part of nature many other animals do the same thing.

If you read the articles I cited below you will see that the humpback whale is threatened (Vulnerable), not endangered.  However, that is a recent advance, they were almost taken to the point of extinction.

There are real threats to whales, pollution, damage caused by boats (even whale watchers), and over hunting.  But with some work we can reduce the problem.

Answer 4

They just creep me out. I carry a baseball bat just in case I see one on the beach.

Answer 5

Humpbacks are endangered because we (in general) hunted them to near extinction.  You obviously know that.  We ARE doing things to save them, and in fact there are more humpback whales estimated in the wild now than in over 100 years.  Well into the 10's of thousands in the Pacific.  The reason it's so slow going is because it takes so long for a whale to carry a calf to term, raise it, and train it to survive on it's own.  Simple biology.  We can only do so much.  After that the species itself needs to do the work.  There are no such things as captive breeding facilities for humpback whales.  I couldn't even imagine the artificial insemination program...

Answer 6

You are living in the past.  Humpback whale are not endangered.  Their populations are increasing.  They are fully protected.  So there is no need for "we" to do anything.  Hunting for food may seem cruel to you.  But staving people is more cruel.  There is something very wrong with a person that puts an animal above a human, it is certainly NOT altruistic.  Native peoples have the right to subsistence hunting.  What kind of person would deny the Inuit their heritage?

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