NORTH PACIFIC RIGHT WHALE

The 'North Pacific Right Whale' is a whale species belonging to the ''Eubalaena'' genus. Its scientific name is ''Eubalaena japonica''. Estimates of its population range from 100 to 300 individuals. Although the whales have been protected from whaling since 1935, illegal Soviet whaling in the 1950s and 60s depleted their numbers further. The World Conservation Union has expressed concern that its numbers are now too low for recovery, and that extinction may be inevitable. Since the Baiji was declared functionally extinct in 2006, the Northern Pacific Right Whale is now the most endangered marine mammal on Earth.

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