Notes: [1] Numbers are estimated for invertebrates, vascular plants, and lower plants.
[2] Nationally scarce includes nationally threatened and nationally rare.
[3] Mosses, liverworts, lichens and stoneworts.
[4] Reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds have not been formally assessed against IUCN criteria.
[2] Nationally scarce includes nationally threatened and nationally rare.
[3] Mosses, liverworts, lichens and stoneworts.
[4] Reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds have not been formally assessed against IUCN criteria.
Contextual indicator
Coverage: Great Britain
Source: JNCC
- In Great Britain in 2003, 16 per cent of mammals and birds, and 16 per cent of reptiles, amphibians and freshwater fish, were assessed as 'threatened'.
- Nearly half of lower plants, and a third of vascular plants were assessed as threatened or nationally scarce in 2003.