KMGBF Monitoring Framework

Preferred term

A.3 Red List Index

Type

  • Indicator

Definition

  • The indicator “Red List Index” measures change in aggregate extinction risk across groups of species. It is based on genuine changes in the number of species in each category of extinction risk on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (www.iucnredlist.org) and is expressed as changes in an index ranging from 0 to 1.

Broader concept

indicator code

  • A.3

is headline indicator for

Source

  • https://www.cbd.int/doc/decisions/cop-16/cop-16-dec-31-en.pdf

custodian agency

  • BirdLife International (BLI)
  • International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

In other languages

URI

http://metadata.cbd.int/kmgbf/indicator_A.3

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