Text 1: Marine biologist Park argues that whale population recovery after the international whaling moratorium of 1986 has been a major conservation success. Several species — humpback, blue, right — that had been hunted to near extinction have rebounded dramatically; the moratorium proves that international agreements can work.
Text 2: Marine biologist Singh accepts the success of the moratorium but argues that new threats — ship strikes, plastic pollution, ocean noise, warming oceans — now press whale populations the moratorium does not address. The hunting threat has been managed; the broader survival problem has not.
Both authors would most likely agree that
- Acheck_circle
international action has reduced commercial hunting pressure on whales.
- B
whales face no environmental threats today.
- C
no whale populations have recovered.
- D
the whaling moratorium failed.
Explanation
Both accept the moratorium's success in reducing hunting; they differ on whether other threats now dominate. A is shared. B, C, and D contradict at least one author.