Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Humpback whale

 

Conservation Status:

• Strictly Protected by the International Whaling Commission (IWC);
• Listed in Annex 1 (threatened species) of the International Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES);
• Listed in Annex C1 (strictly protected) of Regulation 3626/82 of the European Union;
• Protected by the US Marine Mammals Protection Act (MMPA) and declared a "diminished species" (a species whose population is smaller than it should be in order to be considered healthy)
• Listed as an "endangered species" by the Endangered Species Act of the United States of America (ESA);
• Listed as "vulnerable" by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN);
• Protected in Peru since 1966.
  

Distribution in Peru:	Historic threats:
Northern coast of Peru.	Whaling (between 1951 and 1967, 283 whales)

Present threats:

Aboriginal whaling in the Grenadines; Illegal whaling by Japanese whalers

 

 

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