Fact-check: “Southern right whales are endangered”
Verdict: Partly True (72% confidence)
Whether southern right whales are 'endangered' depends entirely on which framework you use. Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and Australia's EPBC Act, the species is formally listed as Endangered — and NOAA's own 2021 five-year review recommended downlisting to 'Threatened' but that change has not taken effect. The IUCN Red List, the most widely used global standard, classifies the overall species as Least Concern (with the Chile-Peru subpopulation as Critically Endangered), meaning the un…
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