5 Endangered Species Making Incredible Comebacks

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‘When it comes to saving endangered species, progress is an ongoing effort. Due to issues like poaching, the destruction of natural habitats, and illegal trade, animals face extinction for a number of reasons. 

Though some scientists are trying to bring extinct animal species back from the dead by resurrecting their DNA and using other modern genetic technologies, others are trying to save the species we still have through enacting law and policy to protect them, creating new habitat reserves, and reducing threats to wildlife that can lead to their endangerment. Here are a few animal species once threatened with extinction that are now making epic comebacks. 

Mountain gorillas - Mountain gorillas continue to remain a critically endangered species, but luckily intensive conservation efforts in recent years are proving to be paying off. Though mountain gorillas are threatened with habitat destruction, disease, and poaching, their population has been growing for the past 35 years. There's now over 1000 of them, a total that represents an increase of 25 percent since 2010 in the heartland of the Virunga Massif in central Africa. 

Humpback whales - In 1970, the U.S. government listed all humpback whales as endangered after commercial whaling had drastically reduced their numbers. After a scientific review of the 14 geographically defined humpback whale population, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) informed the public in 2016, that nine of those populations have recovered so well that they no longer require protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, though they'll still be covered under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. ’ (Source)

Tiffi needs to take a break. All of this endangered species and extinction is getting her down. She makes lunch and then decides to watch some Netflix.

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