Whaling is no longer the only threat to whales.

The oceans, or rather, human impacts on the oceans, have changed dramatically over the half-century since whales have been protected.  

Known environmental threats to whales include global warming, pollution, overfishing, ozone depletion, noise such as sonar weaponry, and ship strikes. Industrial fishing threatens the food supply of whales and also puts whales at risk of entanglement in fishing gear. 

If you’re thinking of eating whale, you might want to think again – the blubber of dead whales in some areas is so highly contaminated with organochlorines such as PCBs and pesticides that it would be classified as toxic waste!  

Organochlorines are known to damage development of children and affect reproduction. 

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