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Australian humpback whale population thrives, record-breaking numbers
Those in need of a good news story this year need only look to Australia’s humpback whale population.
Southern Cross University director of marine research Professor Peter Harrison said estimations indicated more than 35,000 humpback whales were making their way up Australia’s east coast.
“We now have a record number of whales migrating towards the Great Barrier Reef from Antarctica in a 10,000km stretch of ‘whale highway’,” Prof Harrison said.
“The absence of whaling over the…
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