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Environment
Poppy Johnston

Climate squeezing Australia's southern right whales

Longer stints between babies for southern right whales is sounding alarm bells for scientists. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

The southern right whale has long been heralded as a conservation success story.

The species bounced back from the brink of extinction after being relentlessly hunted by commercial whalers during the 19th and 20th centuries, with the global population slowly recovering from as few as 300 to as many as 15,000 today.

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