The most comprehensive update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ will be unveiled at IUCN's World Conservation Congress in Barcelona on Monday, October 6, 2008.

Some large whale species, including the humpback, are now less threatened with extinction, according to the cetacean update for the 2008 IUCN Red List. Most small coastal and freshwater cetaceans, however, are moving closer to extinction.