Conservation Designations for UK taxa – collation

The UK spreadsheet of conservation designations lists UK species and their designations, or 'badges'. Badges refer to species listed in international agreements, UK legislation, UK country lists, or which have a particular status (e.g. red list species, Nationally Rare or Scarce species). JNCC has collated several lists as a downloadable spreadsheet of species' designations.

These lists are not fully comprehensive. For example, the spreadsheet does not incorporate all marine species 'badges' or all Schedules in The Wildlife and Countryside Act. Local Red List assessments are not included, and for some categories only selected annexes/appendices/schedules have been added.

For red listed species there is a two-step process prior to publishing the results on the designations spreadsheet. The first is a review to approve the red list assessment by the contracting authority (once the first review is complete, the lists are published by the contracting authority). The second review is undertaken by the Red List Inter-agency Working Group to confirm accuracy and compliance. For more information on priority red lists see Table 1.