The North Pacific population of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) has had its status under Canada's Species At Risk Act (SARA) downgraded from "threatened" to “species of special concern” . Sounds good doesn't it!  Surely this means that the population is recovering from historical declines, and that the things that threaten it's persistence are now under control.

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Or maybe it means that now the whale's status now in not quite as bad shape as before, it's probably ok to stick a port to serve the $7.9-billion Northern Gateway pipeline off Kitimat in northern British Columbia, to ship diluted bitumen from.

I wonder which it could be.  Read the story as reported in the Vancouver Sun.