Oceania Humpback Whale Recovery Plan : Final draft June 2011

Abstract

Oceania’s humpback whales are of global conservation concern having recently been re‐ classified from “Threatened” to “Endangered” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Although humpback whales in many parts of the world are showing encouraging signs of recovery from past exploitation, the small breeding populations in the South Pacific Islands region remain vulnerable to extinction.