84cb669d-41ae-46c4-a65d-485bdd7c6824 eng nonGeographicDataset Dave Chambers Dave.Chambers@JNCC.gov.uk custodian 2016-06-22 UK Species Conservation Designations summary spreadsheet 2016-05-01 2016-05-01 84cb669d-41ae-46c4-a65d-485bdd7c6824 The spreadsheet contains designations for over 11660 “taxa" that have been assigned some form of rarity, threat or legal status in Great Britain or the UK. This in effect a collation of many different lists including International conventions/directives, lists based on status eg Red lists and schedules from domestic legislation such as the Wildlife and Countryside Act. The spreadsheet can be searched to find which designations a particular taxon has, or to find out which UK taxa are listed for a given designation. 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. The spreadsheet contains several worksheets – the most important being the "Master List". In effect the Master list is really a collation of different lists combined into the same data structure, with each row being distinguished by a unique combination of "taxa" and designation. Thus a taxon with 10 designations will be represented by ten rows on the master list. Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) data@jncc.gov.uk custodian Freshwater Marine Terrestrial Unclassified Rare and Scarce species red Data Books Species status Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement: "Contains public sector data © JNCC/NE/NRW/SNH/DOENI. Licence: OGL" otherRestrictions no limitations eng biota 1979-01-01 2016-01-01 Microsoft Excel for Windows Unknown http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/84cb669d-41ae-46c4-a65d-485bdd7c6824-Taxon-designations-20160511.xls Taxon-designations-20160511.xls This spreadsheet is a collation of various conservation designation listings. JNCC take the information from a variety of published sources eg Red lists, and schedules of international and national legislation. The species names on these lists are all cross referenced to the recommended names on the UK Species Dictionary managed by the Natural History Museum on behalf of the National Biodiversity Network. This matching process ensures that all of the designations relating to an individual species are all correctly tagged for that species. On some published lists the designated names are for groups of organisms such as "all bats" or "all cetaceae (whales and dolphins". In such cases the individual species naturally occurring within the UK are listed. The first version of this list was published in 2004. An audit trail of subsequent updates is shown here http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-3428 The JNCC collation of species designations is used on the NBN Gateway and also within the Recorder biological recording software package.