Globally threatened species benefitting from project actions

How this performance indicator is measured

For each Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme-funded project, a list of Red List species known or very likely to be present is compiled through consultation with the project team.

For each Red List species, the project team assess whether project actions are likely to benefit that species, and assign one of the categories below. Allocation is supported by a short description of the actions being taken.

Action category

Direct: In the past 12 months, restoration actions directly benefitting the species have taken place e.g. provision of food or structures for breeding, predator control, population supplementation, habitat restoration specifically targeted at this species.

Secondary (indirect): In the past 12 months, restoration actions indirectly benefitting the species have taken place e.g. enhancement of habitat (to benefit other species as well as target), removal of invasive species (to benefit other species as well as target), reduction in other general threats such as hunting or pollution.

Maybe: In the past 12 months, restoration actions which may benefit the species have taken place e.g. exact habitat preference is not known but some habitat enhancement has taken place.

Unknown: Not enough known about the species to assess whether it is likely to benefit from any actions.

No: Not aware of any action that might have benefited the species over the past 12 months.

N/A: Not applicable, species not present.

Why this is important

Biodiversity – the variety of plant and animal life in the world – gives us the food we eat, filters the water we drink, and supplies the air we breathe. Nature is important for our mental and physical wellbeing as well as for society’s ability to cope with global change, health threats and disasters. Despite the urgent moral, economic and environmental imperative, nature is in a state of crisis. The 2020 ‘State of Nature in the EU’ report found that 81% of EU protected habitats and 63% of EU protected species are in “poor” or “bad” conservation status. Globally, the rate of species extinction is at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 million years, and the rate is increasing. As a result, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse are one of the biggest threats facing humanity in the next decade. Protecting and restoring biodiversity is the only way to preserve the quality and continuity of human life on Earth.