Conservation Designations for UK taxa – collation updates

The following Red List has been added

• Red List of the bryophytes of Britain, 2023

The following Red Lists have been removed from the designations spreadsheet pending further edits

• Red list assessment of British freshwater fish
• Red List of bryophytes in Britain, 2022
• Red List of British seaweeds, 2021

The following Red Lists have been added:

• A review of the status of the beetles of Great Britain – Longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae). Natural England Commissioned Reports No. 272
• A review of the status of the beetles of Great Britain: The Silphidae (Carrion Beetles) Natural England Commissioned Reports No. 316
• A review of the status of the beetles of Great Britain – The Staphylinidae: Tachyporinae beetles. Natural England Commissioned Reports No. 265
• A review of the status of the beetles of Great Britain: The Byrrhidae (Pill Beetles), Clambidae (Fringe-winged Beetles), Dascillidae (Soft-bodied Plant Beetles), Eucinetidae (Plate-thigh Beetles), Monotomidae (Root-eating Beetles), Phalacridae (Shining Flower Beetles) and Ptilodactylidae. JNCC Species Status No. 17
• Red list assessment of British freshwater fish
• Red List of bryophytes in Britain, 2022
• Red List of British seaweeds, 2021

The following Red Lists have been updated:

• Inclusion of millipedes and woodlice from A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda), centipedes (Chilopoda) and woodlice (Isopoda) of Great Britain
• Inclusion of nationally rare and scarce taxa from A review of the beetles of Great Britain: The Soldier Beetles and their allies
• The Vascular Plant Red Data List for Great Britain, revised February 2021

Correction of designation status in A review of the scarce and threatened bees, wasps and ants of Great Britain list, for bee Lasioglossum leucopus, previously added as Rare.

The following list has been updated:

• Birds of Conservation Concern 5: the red list for birds (Red/Amber list and not based on IUCN criteria) 

In addition a number of corrections have been made including archiving Notable statuses for taxa whose statuses have been more recently been assessed, correcting taxon version keys and red list categories for non-native mollusc taxa not applicable for red listing assessment

Correction of taxon version key for Black Guillemot, Cepphus grylle: NBNSYS0000000375 to NBNSYS0000000376 in Birds of Conservation Concern 4: the red list for birds (Red/Amber list and not based on IUCN criteria)

The following Red List has been updated:

• The Vascular Plant Red Data List for Great Britain, revised February 2019

In addition species with Least Concern Red Data Category are now included in The Butterfly Red List for Great Britain, 2010

The following Red Lists have been added:

• A review of the Population and Conservation Status of British Mammals (2018)
• A review of the status of the Lonchopteridae, Platypezidae and Opetiidae flies of Great Britain (2018)
• A review of the Scarce and Threatened Spiders (Araneae) of Great Britain: Species Status No. 22 (2017)

          This includes the new designation 'Spider Amber List'.

The following Genus has been expanded to include all species occurring in Great Britain for the Wildlife & Countryside Schedules:

Circus (Harrier), Gavia (Divers)  and Loxia (Crossbills)

IUCN 2001 European Red List designations have been included for non-native terrestrial mammal species occurring in Great Britain which have not been assessed in any published Red List for Great Britain.

Environment (Wales) Act 2016 - Species of Principal Importance in Wales (section 7) list has replaced the Welsh section 42 list of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006.

January 2018

The following Red List has been added:

• The risk of extinction for birds in Great Britain (Sep 2017)

The following Red Lists have been added:

• A review of the Hemiptera of Great Britain: The shieldbugs and allied families (2016)
• A review of the status of the mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of Great Britain (2016)
• A review of the status of the caddis flies (Trichoptera) of Great Britain (2016)
• A review of the beetles of Great Britain: Ground Beetles (Carabidae) (2016)
• A review of the status of the beetles of Great Britain: The stag beetles, dor beetles, dung beetles, chafers and their allies – Lucanidae, Geotrupidae, Trogidae and Scarabaeidae (2016)
• A Provisional Assessment of the Status of Acalyptratae flies in the UK (2016)
• A review of the status of the beetles of Great Britain: The clown beetles and false clown beetles - Histeridae and Sphaeritidae (2017)
• A Provisional Assessment of the Status of Calypterate flies in the UK (2017)
• A review of the status of Larger Brachycera flies of Great Britain (2017)
• A review of the status of the beetles of Great Britain: The wood-boring beetles, spider beetles, woodworm, false powder-post beetles, hide beetles and their allies – Derodontidoidea (Derodontidae) and Bostrichoidea (Dermestidae, Bostrichidae and Ptinidae) (2017)

The following Red Lists have been added:

• A Review of the Non-Marine Mollusca of Great Britain (2014)
• A review of the scarce and threatened stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Great Britain (2014)
• A Vascular Plant Red List for England (2014)
• A review of the scarce and threatened flies of Great Britain. Part 6: Hoverflies (2014)
• A review of the beetles of Great Britain: The Darkling Beetles and their allies (2014)
• A review of the scarce and threatened beetles of Great Britain: The leaf beetles and their allies (2014)
• A review of the Hemiptera of Great Britain: The Aquatic and Semi-aquatic Bugs (2015)
• A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda), centipedes (Chilopoda) and woodlice (Isopoda) of Great Britain (2015)
• A review of the Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets) and allied species of Great Britain (2015)

The following lists have been updated:

• Birds of Conservation Concern 4: the red list for birds (Red/Amber list and not based on IUCN criteria), 2015
• Scottish Biodiversity List (incorporating 2007 updates and 2012 categorisation), 2013

The previous versions of these two lists have been archived by JNCC and are not shown on this spreadsheet.

Pipistrelle designations have been reviewed, so that the correct taxa are applied to each designation. This means that in cases where all bats are protected, three pipistrelle taxa have been listed,  these being:

• Pipistrellus pipistrellus sensu lato (Schreber, 1774) – common pipistrelle/soprano pipistrelle unseparated
• Pipistrellus pipistrellus sensu stricto (Schreber, 1774) – common pipistrelle separated from soprano pipistrelle
• Pipistrellus pygmaeus (Leach, 1825) – soprano pipistrelle

The recommended taxon names, authorities and taxon version keys have been updated in line with the latest version of the Natural History Museum’s UK's Species Inventory  (May 2016).

The Master List has been updated and amended as follows:

•  Updated Schedules 5 and 8 of "The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981". This includes species added and removed from the schedules since 2011
• Updated "Section 42 Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 - Species of Principal Importance in Wales". This includes species added and removed from Section 42 in the last revision in November 2012 
• Added "A Conservation Evaluation of British Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi (2012)"
• Added a "Red List of Fungi for Great Britain: Boletaceae 2013"
• Added "A review of the beetles of Great Britain: The Soldier Beetles and their allies".
• The "Habitats Directive Annex II, IV, and V" listings have been updated to match those used as the basis for the UK's 3rd report on the Implementation of the Habitats Directive. This also includes two turtle species on Annex II that were previously incorrectly shown as only Annex IV species.

JNCC has updated all of the recommended taxon names, authorities and other attributes including taxon version keys (unique identifier codes for each taxon) to correspond with the latest version (March 2014) of the Natural History Museum’s UK species inventory.

• Added a column into the 'Master List' and 'Summary for each taxon' sheets which contains links to the NBN Gateway Interactive Mapper for the relevant species.
• Added Lycia zonaria subsp. britannica to the 1997 BAP list, a previous omission.

• 'Current Taxon Name' column has been updated.

Corrections:

• All references to the 'Bonn Convention' removed as this is another name for the Convention on Migratory Species.
• The RDB designation for 'Carabus intricatus' as endangered had been archived and therefore absent from the spreadsheet. This was incorrect and has been amended.
• The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 2010: Schedules 3 and 4 updated to Schedules 4 and 5 respectively. The Schedules retain their meanings ('Animals which may not be taken or killed in certain ways' and 'European protected species of plants') and their designated species.

• This update includes the lists OSPAR, Northern Ireland Priority Species, Red List of Water Beetles and 'The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2010)' (downloaded 13/12/2010). Note: the water beetles list de-designates a number of Notable B species which no longer appear in the collation.
• Species authorities and attributes were added to the master list and summary table, along with minor formatting changes.
• The taxon version keys for the following beetles were updated: Potamonectes griseostriatus (NBNSYS0000007575 to NHMSYS0020704746), Mycetoporus longicornis (NBNSYS0000023593 to NHMSYS0020704744)and Sibinia primitus (NBNSYS0000025479 to NBNSYS0000156731). Also updated Sibinia primitus to Sibinia primita.

Corrections:

• The recommended name for Phymatolithon calcareum on the UK Priority species list and the UK Biodiversity Long List was corrected to Phymatolithon calcareum, from Phymatholithon calcareum.
• Taraxacum palustrisquamum has been amended to Taraxacum palustrisquameum.
• The Bonn convention source was updated to a daughter agreement of the Convention on Migratory Species.
• The designation for pipistrellus pygmaeus under the Bern Convention was corrected, from Bern III to Bern II.
• Added missing taxon version keys and recommended taxon names. The 'designated name' column has also been updated.

This update fixes a few errors:

• Amends the scientific name for Whimbrel to Numenius phaeopus where designated under the 'Birds of Conservation Concern 3' list.
• Removes the common name for Numenius minutus as designated under the 'Bonn Convention' (previously incorrect and the original list did not specifiy a common name for this species).
• Amends the source description for the 'Bern Convention'.
• Rectifies a difference in species between the master and summary sheets.
• Amends the taxon version keys for Pipistrellus pipistrellus, Oberea oculata and Hieracium sect. Alpestria.
• Amends the statuses of butterflies in the 2010 Red List.
• Corrects the taxon group for Coregonus clupeoides.

It also adds a taxon version key column into the summary sheet as requested.

This update includes the following new lists and amendments:

• A new Red List of British Butterflies, Fox, R., Warren, M.S., and Brereton, T.M. (2010), Species Status 12; 1-32. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.
• Bern Convention Appendix III: Special protection through 'appropriate and necessary legislative and administrative measures', of the listed wild fauna species. Any exploitation of listed animal species to be subject to regulation.
• The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994 (NI). Schedule 2: European Protected Species of Animals (1995), Amendment to Schedule 2 (2004), Schedule 3: Animals which may not be taken or killed in certain ways (1995), Schedule 4: European Protected Species of Plants.
• Revised list of nationally rare bryophytes (2010) Preston, C., Field Bryology 100
• Convention on Migratory Species Daughter Agreements: Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA), Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats (EUROBATS), Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas (ASCOBANS). NB. The AEWA list has been restricted to species appearing on the British Ornithologists Union list (categories A-C only).
• We have updated the name and associated details of 'The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994’ to ‘The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010’.

The August 2009 update is perhaps the most extensively amended version of the Conservation Designations spreadsheet. It includes new and amended lists from the following sources:

• Scottish Biodiversity List of species of principal importance for biodiversity conservation
• Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 - Species of Principal Importance in England (section 41) and Wales (section 42)
• The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994 : Schedule 2: European protected species of animals, Schedule 3: Animals which may not be taken or killed in certain ways, Schedule 4: European protected species of plants.
• Birds of Conservation Concern 3. The population status of birds in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. Eaton et al., British Birds 102  June 2009  pages  296–341
• The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2007 and 2008). This provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been globally evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.
• Year 2 amendments to the Vascular Plant Red Data List for Great Britain
• Additions to Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, and amendments to take into account various geographical restrictions to various listings under the W and C Act.
• Protection of Badgers Act (1992)

We have also updated a number of Taxon Version Keys to match the recommended keys supplied by the Natural History Museum. A few errors in common names have been fixed. Source Descriptions and Designation descriptions have been updated for the UK BAP list.

1. Amendments to the UK BAP priority species list (as published in 2007) resulting in a BAP list of 1149+2-1=1150 species: a) addition of two moths mistakenly ommitted from the 2007 list of 1149 species. Rhizedra lutosa - Large Wainscot and Euxoa tritici - White-line Dart b) archiving/removal of one species: Clavaria purpurea (the British population of what was thought to be C purpurea is now known to be "within the variation of Clavaria incarnata" . C incarnata is incidentally not a UK BAP species.)

2. Addition of newly published review of dragonflies and damselflies. (JNCC Species Status Assessment report no 11)The Odonata Red Data List for Great Britain - 2008 (Caroline Daguet, Dr Graham French and Dr Pam Taylor - Eds)

3. Correction to list of Annex 1 bird species under the Wild Birds Directive (mistakenly ommitted from the spreadsheet). Addition of Greenland White-Fronted Goose Anser albifrons subsp. flavirostris and Fair Isle Wren Troglodytes troglodytes fridariensis to Annex 1.

Incorporates updated taxon version keys and standard taxon names from the Natural History Museum/NBN species dictionary. (Taxon version keys are used as unique identifiers for species). All taxa now have a taxon version key with the exception of the taxa designated as "least concern".

Following requests by users, we have made the designation abbreviations unique to each designation. This can be seen most clearly in the sheet “summary for each taxon” Examples are

RedList_GB_post2001:NT

RedList_Global_post94:CR

CITES:A

BirdsDir:A2.2

A sheet called “complex synonyms” has been added to the downloadable spreadsheet. This helps users to trace designated species that have been amalgamated with others into a single entry on the NBN species dictionary. Several are these are merely different syntactical conventions for subspecies. This list includes several species highlighted by Mark Gurney (RSPB)  and also by Local Record Centres. Note that it does not include the lichen species outlined below possibly because the synonymns have not yet been defined within the NHM dictionary.

• Porpidia musiva is included within P. cinereoatra, and therefore there should be a single status entry of LC
• Thelidium microbolum is included within T. fontigenum, and therefore there should be a single status entry of LC and NR
• Verrucaria carnea is included within V. hochstetteri, and therefore there should be a single status entry of LC
• V. papillosa is included within V. viridula, and therefore there should be a single status entry of LC

Deborah Procter (JNCC) has reviewed the list of species that are still listed under either the original Red Data Book for Insects (Shirt 1987) or the Invertebrate (Bratton) Red Data Books and have no subsequent Review or Red List.

Oct 2007

The vascular plant list of globally threatened species has also been added.

NBN/NHM dictionary recommended taxon version keys have been revised and updated (though this needs to be subject to final checks by the NHM

now incorporates millipedes and centipedes, formerly ommited in error.

July 2007

Rationalisation of categories relating to red data listings. The global red listings have been separated from the Uk red listings. The UK red listings have been sub-divided into those based on

1. the pre 1994 IUCN guidelines

2. the 1994 IUCN guidelines

3. the 2001 IUCN guidelines

The descriptions of the designations for each of these categories has been revised

Errors in the previous collation for diptera have been corrected. The discrepencies included  140 "Nationally notables" on Falk 91 that have effectively had this status removed in the Empidoidea review. We have updated the database accordingly by setting the status in Falk 91 from Current to Archived for these species and putting in an archived date of 1/5/2005.