WCC 2016 Res 016 - Activity Report

Funding from the EU was secured for the INSPIRE4Nature project, led by CNRS, involving several IUCN Red List Partners, to train 15 PhD students, some of whom will be working on the Red List Index. IUCN Secretariat secured funding from the Swiss Government to develop functionality on the IUCN Red List website to serve up RLIs and various disaggregations of them to users.
The IUCN DG has convened calls with the CEOs of the Red List Partners, and after a decade of existence, join-fundraising efforts are finally underway to secure significant funding for the IUCN Red List, allowing the regular production and update of RLIs based on reassessments.

The RLI was included in the 2018 SDG report with data for each country updated in the UN SDG indicator database • The RLI and various disaggregations were included in the Third Order Draft of the IPBES Global Assessment, with the indicators extrapolated to 2020 to assess progress towards the Aichi Targets and 2030 for the SDGs, and in each of the IPBES Regional Assessments. • RLIs, disaggregated to national level, were included in the ‘country profiles’ on the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool, and made available to CBD national focal points, among others

A Red List Index for Wild Relatives of domesticated species of birds and mammals was calculated and published in McGowan et al 2018 Conservation Letters 2018: e12588. • Progress was made towards the 3rd complete assessment for mammals and 2nd for amphibians, but their completion has been delayed, again, to 2019 and 2020 or later respectively. • An EU-funded INSPIRE4Nature project, led by CNRS, has commenced, including a PhD based at Sapienza University Rome, to work on RLI methodologies. • National RLIs have been produced based on repeated assessments of national extinction risk for multiple taxa in South Africa, and for birds in Colombia.