Red List of Ecosystems Inventory

What is the Red List of Ecosystems Inventory?

The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) Inventory provides a comprehensive, and publicly available service, cataloguing ecosystem assessments from around the world. This inventory is designed to synthesise a repository of ecosystem assessments from different sources, including national, sub-national and regional datasets, and to link users with source material that will help inform necessary ecosystem conservation decisions.

Using the RLE Inventory

  1. Enter the Country or Territory of interest.
  2. If an entered Country has affiliated Territories with RLE assessments these will also be displayed. Select the grey tab that matches your search preference.
  3. By default, the GBF Reporting tab is displayed first. Select Country/Territory Profile to display all ecosystem information available.
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Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) Headline Indicator A.1

One of the goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is to maintain, enhance, or restore, the integrity, connectivity, and resilience of all ecosystems by 2050. To evaluate the progress of each country toward this goal, the RLE was adopted as Headline Indicator, with the Red List Index of Ecosystems (RLIe) providing a summary of the data obtained from these assessments. The RLIe is a single value between 0 and 1, that summarises the overall risk status of all ecosystems within a country. Values closer to 0 indicate that most ecosystems are critically endangered and may be on the brink of collapse, whereas values closer to 1 indicate that, overall, the ecosystems present are of least concern.

The RLE Inventory provides a report on the RLIe per country for which there is available data, on the GBF Reporting tab. RLIe values are also summarised by Ecosystem Functional Group (The 3rd level of the Global Ecosystem Typology) where the crosswalk between ecosystem type, and Ecosystem Functional Group is available. Only ecosystems that have been comprehensively assessed are included in the GBF reporting tab. 

Country/Territory Profile

The RLE Inventory also provides, for each country with available data, a complete list of all ecosystems that have been assessed with the RLE tool. Available by selecting the Country/Territory Profile, this tab details the ecosystems, their corresponding Ecosystem Functional Group if known, threat status, the RLE criteria which triggered the threat status assignment, method of assessment, and various links and citations of source material. All ecosystems that have been assessed are included in this report, irrespective of scale, and are arranged in order of scope, from sub-national assessments to national assessments, to supra-national assessments. 

Disclaimer

  • The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Inventory is not a final product. The information presented in the GBF Reporting and Country Profile is intended to facilitate the evaluation of Headline Indicator A.1 and inform necessary conservation decisions
  • The designation of geographical entities on the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Inventory do not imply the expression of, or represent, any opinion by IUCN, the Red List of Ecosystems, or its Partners concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
  • The RLE Inventory catalogues information from a diversity of sources but does not guarantee, nor provide quality control on this data. RLE assessments included in the RLE Inventory come from a diversity of sources and the RLE Inventory does not provide quality control of the information contained within. Information on the RLE tool can be found at the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems.

If you have any questions about any of these terms or how they may apply to your intended use of The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Inventory, please contact the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems at [email protected].