United Kingdom UK: Bird Species: Threatened data was reported at 11.000 Unit in 2017. United Kingdom UK: Bird Species: Threatened data is updated yearly, averaging 11.000 Unit from Dec 2017 (Median) to 2017, with 1 observations. United Kingdom UK: Bird Species: Threatened data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.World Bank.WDI: Land Use, Protected Areas and National Wealth. Birds are listed for countries included within their breeding or wintering ranges. Threatened species are the number of species classified by the IUCN as endangered, vulnerable, rare, indeterminate, out of danger, or insufficiently known.; ; United Nations Environmental Program and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and International Union for Conservation of Nature, Red List of Threatened Species.; Sum;

United Kingdom UK: Mammal Species: Threatened data was reported at 5.000 Unit in 2017. United Kingdom UK: Mammal Species: Threatened data is updated yearly, averaging 5.000 Unit from Dec 2017 (Median) to 2017, with 1 observations. United Kingdom UK: Mammal Species: Threatened data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.World Bank.WDI: Land Use, Protected Areas and National Wealth. Mammal species are mammals excluding whales and porpoises. Threatened species are the number of species classified by the IUCN as endangered, vulnerable, rare, indeterminate, out of danger, or insufficiently known.; ; United Nations Environmental Program and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and International Union for Conservation of Nature, Red List of Threatened Species.; Sum;

This zipped collection of files detail the conservation designations of over 1200 UK "taxa" that have been assigned some form of rarity, threat or legal status in Great Britain or the UK. It is a collation of many different "designation" lists including Country specific, National and International Conventions or Directives. The zipped collection contains an Excel workbook, a guidance document detailing how to use the spreadsheet and a document detailing the constituents lists included in the spreadsheet.

The following designation types are included in the spreadsheet: -

Bern Convention (Appendices 1, 2 and 3); Bonn Convention - Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (Appendices 1 and 2, AEWA, ASCOBANS, EUROBATS); Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) UK priority species list; Birds Directive (Annexes 1, 2.1 and 2.2); Birds of Conservation Concern (Red/Amber list and not based on IUCN criteria); Convention on Migratory Species EC CITES (Annexes A, B, C and D); Global Red list status (This includes red listings based on pre-1994, 1994 and 2001 IUCN guidelines); Habitats Directive (Annexes 2, 4 and 5); Nationally Rare/Scarce (Not based on IUCN criteria); Nationally Scarce and Nationally Rare Species (Also with an IUCN status); National Red Lists (This includes red listings based on pre-1994, 1994 and 2001 IUCN guidelines); OSPAR; Protection of Badgers Act 1992; Species of principal importance in England, Scotland, Wales and North Ireland (NERC section 41 and 42 lists, Scottish Biodiversity List and Northern Ireland Priority Species List); The Conservation (Nature Habitats) Regulations (NI) 1995 (Schedule 2, 3 and 4); The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 (Schedule 2, 4 and 5); The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Schedule 1, 5 and 8); Wildlife (NI) Order 1985 (Schedule 1 part 1, Schedule 1 part 2, Schedule 5, Schedule 8 part 1, Schedule 8 part 2)

Please note, this is not a fully comprehensive collation of designations for UK species, for example, local red list assessments are not included, and for some reporting categories only selected annexes/appendices/schedules are included. Note that the generic term "taxa" is in this context a more strictly accurate term than "species" because some of the listed entities are ranked as being either above or below the "species" level.

United Kingdom UK: Plant Species: Higher: Threatened data was reported at 42.000 Unit in 2017. United Kingdom UK: Plant Species: Higher: Threatened data is updated yearly, averaging 42.000 Unit from Dec 2017 (Median) to 2017, with 1 observations. United Kingdom UK: Plant Species: Higher: Threatened data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.World Bank.WDI: Land Use, Protected Areas and National Wealth. Higher plants are native vascular plant species. Threatened species are the number of species classified by the IUCN as endangered, vulnerable, rare, indeterminate, out of danger, or insufficiently known.; ; United Nations Environmental Program and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and International Union for Conservation of Nature, Red List of Threatened Species.; Sum;

Virgin Islands (British) VG: Plant Species: Higher: Threatened data was reported at 20.000 Unit in 2018. Virgin Islands (British) VG: Plant Species: Higher: Threatened data is updated yearly, averaging 20.000 Unit from Dec 2018 (Median) to 2018, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 20.000 Unit in 2018 and a record low of 20.000 Unit in 2018. Virgin Islands (British) VG: Plant Species: Higher: Threatened data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Virgin Islands (British) – Table VG.World Bank.WDI: Environmental: Land Use, Protected Areas and National Wealth. Higher plants are native vascular plant species. Threatened species are the number of species classified by the IUCN as endangered, vulnerable, rare, indeterminate, out of danger, or insufficiently known.;United Nations Environmental Program and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and International Union for Conservation of Nature, Red List of Threatened Species.;Sum;

Virgin Islands (British) VG: Bird Species: Threatened data was reported at 3.000 Unit in 2018. Virgin Islands (British) VG: Bird Species: Threatened data is updated yearly, averaging 3.000 Unit from Dec 2018 (Median) to 2018, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.000 Unit in 2018 and a record low of 3.000 Unit in 2018. Virgin Islands (British) VG: Bird Species: Threatened data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Virgin Islands (British) – Table VG.World Bank.WDI: Environmental: Land Use, Protected Areas and National Wealth. Birds are listed for countries included within their breeding or wintering ranges. Threatened species are the number of species classified by the IUCN as endangered, vulnerable, rare, indeterminate, out of danger, or insufficiently known.;United Nations Environmental Program and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and International Union for Conservation of Nature, Red List of Threatened Species.;Sum;

Virgin Islands (British) VG: Mammal Species: Threatened data was reported at 1.000 Unit in 2018. Virgin Islands (British) VG: Mammal Species: Threatened data is updated yearly, averaging 1.000 Unit from Dec 2018 (Median) to 2018, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.000 Unit in 2018 and a record low of 1.000 Unit in 2018. Virgin Islands (British) VG: Mammal Species: Threatened data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Virgin Islands (British) – Table VG.World Bank.WDI: Environmental: Land Use, Protected Areas and National Wealth. Mammal species are mammals excluding whales and porpoises. Threatened species are the number of species classified by the IUCN as endangered, vulnerable, rare, indeterminate, out of danger, or insufficiently known.;United Nations Environmental Program and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and International Union for Conservation of Nature, Red List of Threatened Species.;Sum;

The OSPAR (https://www.ospar.org/convention) fish biodiversity assessment concerns sensitive and often rare species in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and marginal seas. All fish species captured during fishing on scientific groundfish (otter and beam trawl) surveys are recorded but not necessarily weighed and measured for length. The biodiversity assessment for sensitive and often rare species thus makes use of the occurrences (presence and absences) of a species only.

A list of sensitive fish species was developed to guide the work for the OSPAR fish biodiversity assessment. The list was created by first collating all sensitive fish species recorded on international and national hard law lists, Regional Seas Conventions lists, International Agreement Lists, relevant IUCN Red List species (classified as EX, CR, VU or EN) and all ICES and academic work to identify sensitive fish species. From this extensive list of species, species were removed if they did not occur in the OSPAR area of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Remaining species were divided by region; Bay of Biscay and Iberian Coast, Celtic Seas, Greater North Sea, Norwegian Sea and parts of Macaronesia where data was available. Those species whose normal distribution was at the very edge of an OSPAR region were not assessed within the region.

Species where ICES or ICCAT quantitative stock assessments are conducted in all or part of their distribution were retained on the list, but highlighted so as to avoid duplication of work. The list was then cross-referenced with the ICES WKCOFIBYC (ICES, 2021a) and WKABSENS (ICES, 2021b) sensitive species lists and reviewed by expert members of the OSPAR Fish subgroup to ensure all sensitive species were included.

To overcome the potential for species misidentification for those that are difficult to identify beyond the genus level, some species were grouped by genus for the assessment. These include Hippocampus spp. (combining Hippocampus hippocampus with H. guttulatus), Alosa spp. (combining Alosa alosa and A. fallax), Dipturus spp. (combining Dipturus batis complex, D. batis, D. flossada and D. intermedia), Mustelus spp. (combining Mustelus mustelus and M. asterias), Sebastes spp. (combining Sebastes marinus, S. mentella and S. norvegicus), Dasyatis spp. (combining Dasyatis pastinaca and D. tortonesei), Galeus spp. (combining Galeus melastomus and G. atlanticus), Coregonus spp. (combining Coregonus maraena and Coregonus oxyrinchus), Raja brachyura (including Bathyraja brachyurops) and Deania calcea (including D. profundorum). After grouping, a total of 102 unique taxonomic groups were retained on the OSPAR sensitive fish species list for four OSPAR regions (Greater North Sea, Celtic Sea, Bay of Biscay and Wider Atlantic).

Data file names reflect the OSPAR region sampled, country conducting the sampling, fishing gear and time of years of sampling (as defined by Greenstreet and Moriarty 2017), e.g.: BBICFraBT4 refers to Bay of Biscay and Iberian Coast data from France by a Beam Trawl survey in quarter 4 of the year andGNSIntOT3 refers to Greater North Sea data from International (multiple countries) sampling by an Otter Trawl survey in quarter 3 of the year etc.

Scientific trawl survey data are submitted to the ICES Database of Trawl Surveys (DATRAS):http://www.ices.dk/marine-data/data-portals/Pages/DATRAS.aspx The DATRAS reporting format is detailed online: https://datras.ices.dk/Data_products/ReportingFormat.aspx The metadata relating to the ICES co-ordinated surveys are available here: http://www.ices.dk/marine-data/data-portals/Pages/DATRAS-Docs.aspx

ICES Data Centre host the database of trawl surveys (DATRAS) for groundfish and beam trawl data. DATRAS has an integrated quality check utility. All data, before entering the database, have to pass an extensive quality check. Despite this errors and missing data arise, which are subsequently dealt with by the data submitters from the contributing countries as required. However, this screening process was implemented in 2009 for data from 2004 onwards. Since some survey time-series extend back to the 1960s, historic data (unless re-evaluated and re-submitted by contributing countries) may not have been subject to the same level of quality control as these more recent data. Furthermore, the type of information collected, the level of detail and resolution in the data, has gradually evolved over time. In order to derive a single format, quality assured monitoring programme data product covering the entire Northeast Atlantic region inconsistencies in the datasets required resolution. These corrections are detailed in ICES 2021a,b:Biological data for trawl surveys are downloaded directly from DATRAS in raw exchange format (known as “HL data”). Ancillary data were processed by ICES 2021a,b to create the "SweptAreaAssessmentOuput" (which replaces the “HH data”) and these were downloaded from the same location: https://datras.ices.dk/Data _ products/Download/Download _ Data _ public.aspx) For the biodiversity assessment of sensitive species, the data are processed to create a standalone dataproduct on species occurrence (presence and absence) and haul location. Initially, valid hauls are subset to determine the Standard Monitoring Programme (i.e. excluding hauls of duration shorter than 13 minutes or longer than 66 minutes) and these hauls are used to define the Standard Survey Area (excluding areas sampled infrequently over time) following the methods detailed in Greenstreet and Moriarty 2017). Biological data were accepted with ICES SpecVal of 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 (see http://vocab.ices.dk/ for further information on SpecVal categories). Additional QA/QC is made at this step to determine if species identification issues are present in the raw biological data.

References: Greenstreet S P R and M Moriarty 2017. Manual for Version 3 of the Groundfish Survey Monitoring and Assessment Data Product. Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 18. Published by Marine Scotland. ISSN: 2043-7722. DOI: 10.7489/1986-1 ICES. 2021a. Workshop on Fish of Conservation and Bycatch Relevance (WKCOFIBYC). ICES Scientific Reports. 3:57. 125 pp. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.8194 ICES. 2021b. Workshop on the production of abundance estimates for sensitive species (WKABSENS). ICES Scientific Reports. 3:96. 128 pp. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.8299

The cirl bunting, Emberiza cirlus, is a scarce and localised breeding bird in the UK, now being confined almost entirely to south Devon. It is on the Red List of Birds of Conservation Concern in the UK owing to the rapid decline (>50%) in the UK breeding range over the past 25 years, and has been identified as a priority species in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. Full surveys of the breeding cirl bunting population in Britain and the Channel Islands were undertaken in 1989, 1998, 2003, 2009 and 2016 to document potential range expansion. The 1989 survey was conducted by the RSPB in conjunction with the Devon Bird Watching and Preservation Society. The 1998 survey was funded by the RSPB and Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) (now Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)). The 2003 survey was funded by the RSPB, English Nature (now Natural England) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The 2009 survey was funded by the RSPB and Natural England. The 2016 survey was funded by Devon Birds, Devon County Council, National Trust, Paignton Zoo, RSPB and Teignbridge District Council. The surveys were carried out under the Statutory Conservation Agencies and RSPB Breeding Birds Scheme (SCARABBS) partnership.