The number of North Atlantic right whales is not growing as fast as scientists would like, but new figures released Tuesday show that the population of the endangered species is showing signs of recovery after years of dramatic declines.

A whale conservation group says the estimated population of North Atlantic right whales in 2024 was 384, a rise of 2.1 per cent over the estimate of 376 in 2023.

“It’s slow, but we’ll take slow growth over decline any day,” Heather Pettis with the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium said in an interview. “It means the sort of free-fall decline in the population has stabilized and we are seeing the population recover slowly each of the last couple of years.”

The number of whales estimated for 2022 was 356. The population had experienced a steady decl

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