The Swedish Red List 2025 – including ecological variables
type: Dataset
description: The Swedish Red List is compiled by the Swedish Species Information Centre (SLU Artdatabanken) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences as part of the environmental monitoring and assessment programme Biodiversity. It includes assessments of the extinction risk of species in Sweden. The Swedish Red List 2025 was published on 24 March 2026 and is the sixth Swedish Red List to use the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List categories and criteria. During the Red List assessment process, the basis for the assessments varies greatly between different species. Some species groups, such as birds and many mammals and fish, are covered by thorough environmental monitoring with long time series of data. However, for most other species groups, the level of knowledge is considerably more limited, which is taken into account in the Red List assessment methodology. To better understand the assessments, it may be helpful to read Manual och riktlinjer för rödlistning i Sverige 2025 (https://res.slu.se/id/publ/145574). This dataset includes all species that have been categorized as red-listed: Regionally Extinct (RE), Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN), Vulnerable (VU), Near Threatened (NT) and Data Deficient (DD). The dataset consists of three different data files that are available as separate CSV files or as a single Excel file with multiple sheets. The data file/sheet ”Rodlistade_arter_2025” contains all red-listed species and their assigned categories, the criteria leading to the red-list categories and supporting documentation. It also includes information on factors that may negatively affect species’ survival in Sweden, as well as information about the species' regional occurrence, and their association with landscape types, biotopes and substrates. The data file/sheet consists of 5217 rows and 128 columns. The data file/sheet ”Paverkan_taxonrelationer” contains information for the two impact factors where the effects on red-listed…
alternate name: Rödlista 2025
citation: SLU Artdatabanken (2026). Rödlistade arter i Sverige 2025. (SLU Artdatabanken rapporterar 37).
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creator: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
date modified: 2026-05-06
date published: 2026-03-24
funding: Grant
  funder: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
funding: Grant
  funder: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
language: Swedish
is part of: https://doi.org/10.5878/fd60-tx23
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keywords: IUCN red list species
keywords: threatened species
keywords: near threatened species
keywords: Bacteria
keywords: Animalia
keywords: Fungi
keywords: Chromista
keywords: Plantae
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publisher: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
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ENDANGERED SPECIES
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red list
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description: The series of publications produced by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). They provide an inventory on the threat to rare plants and animal species. Information includes status, geographical distribution, population size, habitat and breeding rate. The books also contain the conservation measures, if any, that have been taken to protect the species. There are five categories of rarity status: endangered species; vulnerable organisms, which are those unlikely to adapt to major environmental effects; rare organisms, which are those at risk because there are few of them in the world, such as plants which only grow on mountain peaks or on islands; out of danger species, which were formerly in the above categories, but have had the threat removed because of conservation actions; and indeterminate species, which are the plants and animals probably at risk, although not enough is known about them to assess their status.
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endangered animal species
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description: Animals, birds, fish or other living organisms threatened with extinction by natural or human-induced changes in their environment.
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endangered plant species
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description: The plants threatened with extinction by human or natural changes in the environment.
term code: 2700

endangered species (IUCN)
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description: One of the three degrees of "rarity" drawn up by the International Union for the Conservation of Natural Resources. All plants and animals in these categories need special protection. Endangered species are those species in danger of extinction unless steps are taken to change the cause of threat and decline.
term code: 2702

landscape conservation
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description: The safeguarding, for public enjoyment, of landscape and of opportunities for outdoor recreation, tourism and similar activities; the concept includes the preservation and enhancement not only of what has been inherited but the provision of new amenities and facilities.
term code: 4653

conservation of species
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description: Controlled utilization, protection or development of selected classes of plants or animals for their richness, biodiversity and benefits to humanity.
term code: 7983

biodiversity conservation
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description: Planned management (i.e. preservation, maintenance, sustainable use, recovery, enhancement) of a natural resources or of a particular ecosystem to halt, reverse or slow-down the loss of biodiversity from impacts of exploitation, pollution etc. to ensure the future usability of the resource, resilience of communities, and ecosystem integrity.
term code: 15073

biodiversity
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description: [Henderson's] biological diversity q.v. As defined by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity: “the variability among living organisms from all sources, including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part. This includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.” The number of different living species is estimated at between 40 and 80 million, most of them still undiscovered and uncharacterized, each species containing yet further genetic diversity.
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conservation
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description: [Henderson's] n. (1) management of the environment and its natural resources with the aim of protecting it from the damag­ing effects of human activity; (2) the main­tenance of a nucleotide or protein sequence relatively unchanged over evolutionary time and in different species.
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biodiversity loss
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endangered species
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description: Una especie se considera en peligro de extinción, sea vegetal o animal, cuando se encuentra comprometida su existencia globalmente. Esto se puede deber tanto a la depredación directa sobre la especie como a la desaparición de un recurso del cual esta dependa, tanto por la acción del hombre, debido a cambios en el hábitat, producto de hechos fortuitos o por cambios graduales del clima. En la versión 2009 de la Lista Roja de la UICN 2.448 taxones de animales y 2.280 de plantas se encuentran bajo la categoría 'En Peligro', junto con otros 1.665 taxones de animales y 1.575 de plantas que también lo hacen pero bajo la categoría de 'En peligro crítico'. Muchas naciones cuentan con leyes para proteger a las especies que dependen de su conservación para existir, por ejemplo con la prohibición de su caza. Sin embargo, pocas especies obtienen una protección legal considerable, extinguiéndose muchas sin ningún tipo de reconocimiento público. La extinción de una especie es irreparable y, de momento, irreversible, afectando de manera directa o indirecta a la cadena alimentaria y, eventualmente, al propio ser humano. , "Gatunek zagrożony – w znaczeniu ogólnym to gatunek w większym lub mniejszym stopniu zagrożony wyginięciem, w wąskim znaczeniu to jedna z kategorii zagrożenia stosowanych do klasyfikacji gatunków zagrożonych wyginięciem. , "En utrotningshotad art är en art som hotas av utrotning, antingen på grund av att den till antalet är få, eller att den hotas av förändrande miljömässiga eller rovdjursparametrar. Dessa finns ofta med på IUCN:s rödlista, som i Sverige hanteras av ArtDatabanken. IUCN har beräknat att antalet utrotningshotade arter är 40% av alla organismer. Bara en liten andel av det totala antalet beskrivna arter i världen har dock utvärderats av IUCN. Enligt forskare finns det med stor sannolikhet också många hotade arter som människan ännu inte har upptäckt. Många länder äar lagar som erbjuder skydd till arter; de skydden kan vara att förbjuda jakt, fridlysa d…
term code: 20721

IUCN red list species
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threatened species
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near threatened species
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Bacteria
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Animalia
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Fungi
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Chromista
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Plantae
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Sweden
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