European Red Lists of species, 2006-2017

The European Red Lists of species is a review of the conservation status of more than 10 000 European species (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater and marine fishes, butterflies, dragonflies, freshwater molluscs, selected groups of beetles, terrestrial molluscs, vascular plants including medicinal plants, bees, grasshoppers, locusts and crickets, lycopods and ferns), according to IUCN regional Red Listing guidelines applied to the EU28 and to the Pan-European level.



New in the 2017 December version of the database is the updated European Red List of saproxylic beetles.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2019-11-14T15:01:21+00:00
Date (Publication)
2019-11-14T15:01:21+00:00
Citation identifier
eea_t_european-red-list-species_p_2006-2017_v01_r00

Citation identifier
DAT-22-en

Citation identifier
european-red-lists-7

Status
Superseded
Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

 Point of contact

European Environment Agency

http://www.eea.europa.eu#organization

Publisher
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2006 2017
Maintenance and update frequency
EEA Management Plan

  • 2018 1.7.2

EEA topics
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Albania

  • Andorra

  • Montenegro

  • Serbia

  • Lithuania

  • Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)

  • Sweden

  • Liechtenstein

  • Denmark

  • Spain

  • Iceland

  • Monaco

  • Romania

  • Hungary

  • Ireland

  • Belgium

  • Malta

  • North Macedonia

  • Portugal

  • Bulgaria

  • Poland

  • Greece

  • France

  • Cyprus

  • Austria

  • Norway

  • Switzerland

  • Estonia

  • Croatia

  • Finland

  • Italy

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • United Kingdom

  • Latvia

  • Netherlands

  • Slovenia

  • Ukraine

  • San Marino

  • Belarus

  • Czechia

  • Germany

  • Luxembourg

  • Slovakia

  • Moldova

Resource constraints

Use limitation

License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).



Owners and Copyright holders: Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations to public access
Language
English
Additional Information

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 is including all European countries (including the entire area in level 1), 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 fishes, 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 Fishes, no distinction has been made between the EU28 and the Pan-European assessment. In addition, for practical reasons, the European Red List of Marine Fishes 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 | mammals; reptiles and amphibians | 261; 237



2010 | butterflies; dragonflies; saproxylic beetles (living in deadwood) | 483; 142; 436



2011 | vascular plants; freshwater molluscs; terrestrial molluscs; freshwater fishes | 1826; 868; 1234; 532



2015 | medicinal plants; birds; bees; marine fishes | 400; 533; 1965; 1220



2016 | grasshoppers, locusts and crickets | 1082



2017 | lycopods and ferns; saproxylic beetles (update) | 194; 693

Content Information

Feature catalogue citation

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)

  • Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)

  • Microsoft Access (.mdb, .accdb)

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_t_european-red-list-species_p_2006-2017_v01_r00/

OnLine resource

Direct download

The dataset contains European Red List data. All species groups data are merged into one table.

Resource lineage

Statement

The European Red Lists were commissioned by the European Commission and elaborated and compiled by IUCN. Comprehensive and updated results can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/conservation/species/redlist/index_en.htm



Species factsheets and complex searches are available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org/regions/europe

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Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
9c785326-8859-4abd-aad6-c8d35b619ff9

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Non geographic dataset
Name

Tabular dataset

Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/9c785326-8859-4abd-aad6-c8d35b619ff9

Date info (Creation)
2022-09-07T08:00:07.116Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:05:55.986808Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3:2018

Edition

1.0

 
 
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Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA Management Plan

2018 1.7.2
EEA topics

Biodiversity


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