EEA geospatial data catalogue
European Red Lists of species, 2009-2022
The European Red Lists of species is a review of the conservation status of more than 10 000 European species according to IUCN regional Red List guidelines applied to the EU and to the Pan-European level. Assessed groups are mammals; birds; amphibians and reptiles; freshwater fish; marine fish; freshwater molluscs; terrestrial molluscs; vascular plants; medicinal plants; trees; endemic shrubs; lycopods and ferns; bryophytes; saproxylic beetles; butterflies; dragonflies; bees; hoverflies; grasshoppers, locusts and crickets.
New groups in the 2022 version of the European Red List data are hoverflies, bryophytes, trees and endemic shrubs. Birds and terrestrial molluscs are updated versions..
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-01-21T15:01:21+00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-03-28T15:01:21+00:00
- Citation identifier
- eea_t_european-red-list-species_p_2009-2022_v01_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-22-en
- Citation identifier
- european-red-lists-7
Identifier
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Distributor European Environment Agency
Publisher European Environment Agency
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2009-11-01 2022-06-30
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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- Hungary
- Belgium
- Austria
- Greece
- United Kingdom
- Malta
- Denmark
- Finland
- Switzerland
- Liechtenstein
- North Macedonia
- Andorra
- Ukraine
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Moldova
- Slovakia
- Poland
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- Germany
- Belarus
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- Latvia
- Croatia
- France
- San Marino
- Estonia
- Albania
- Monaco
- Luxembourg
- Lithuania
- Italy
- Norway
- Montenegro
- Czechia
- Cyprus
- Bulgaria
- Iceland
- Romania
- Spain
- Sweden
- Ireland
- Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Owners and Copyright holders: Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations to public access
- Language
- English
- Additional Information
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The Red List identifies those species that are threatened with extinction at the European level so that appropriate conservation action can be taken to improve their status.
European red list assessments so far have been done at two geographical levels:
1) EU level : European part of the territory of the EU28, EU27 or EU25 as stated in the specific table (including Canary Islands, Madeira and Açores)
2) Pan-European level : this level includes all European countries (including the EU level), the European part of Türkiye and the European part of Russia up to the Ural, but excluding the Russian Caucasus, Anatolian Türkiye and the other Caucasus countries.
Exceptions from this approach has been taken by the EU Red list of freshwater fish, where the Pan-European level assessment includes the entire Black sea basin, the northern Caspian sea basin and hence the northern Caucasus in general.
For the Red List of Marine Fish, no distinction has been made between the EU28 and the Pan-European assessment. In addition, for practical reasons, the European Red List of Marine Fish covers the entire Mediterranean sea rather than only its European part.
The year of delivery and the number of species assessed by group is as follows
Delivery year | Group | Number of assessed species
2009 | amphibians and reptiles | 237
2009 | mammals | 261
2010 | butterflies | 483
2010 | dragonflies | 142
2011 | freshwater fish | 532
2011 | freshwater molluscs | 868
2011 | vascular plants | 1826
2015 | bees | 1965
2015 | medicinal plants | 400
2015 | marine fish | 1220
2016 | grasshoppers, locusts and crickets | 1082
2017 | saproxylic beetles | 693
2017 | lycopods and ferns | 194
2019 | bryophytes | 1817
2019 | endemic shrubs | 262
2019 | terrestrial molluscs | 2481
2019 | trees | 454
2021 | birds | 544
2022 | hoverflies | 890
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)
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Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
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- OnLine resource
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Direct download
The dataset contains European Red List data. All species groups data are merged into one table.
- OnLine resource
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Table definition
Resource lineage
- Statement
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The European Red Lists were commissioned by the European Commission and elaborated and compiled by IUCN. Comprehensive and updated results can be found at https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/nature-and-biodiversity/european-red-list-threatened-species_en
Species factsheets and complex searches are available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org/
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 9a752c28-cb5f-4ead-9922-2a8173e0306b
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Non geographic dataset
- Name
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Tabular dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/9a752c28-cb5f-4ead-9922-2a8173e0306b
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-03-14T14:31:20.790947Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:05:38.271478Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3:2018
- Edition
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1.0
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