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4.3 Threat status of CWR
Out of the 591 CWR species for which regional assessments
were carried out, 19 were assessed as Not Applicable, either
due to their marginal occurrence in Europe or because they
were introduced after AD 1500. The status of the remaining
species was assessed at two regional levels: geographical
Europe (572 species) and the EU 27 (521 species). At
the European level, at least 11.5% (66) of the species are
considered as threatened, with at least 3.3% (19) of them
being Critically Endangered, 4.4% (22) Endangered and
3.8% (25) Vulnerable – a further 4.5% (26) of the species
are classified as Near Threatened (Table 5, Figure 12).
Within the EU 27, at least 10.5% (55) of the CWR
species assessed are threatened, of which at least 3.5%
(18) are Critically Endangered, 3.3% (17) Endangered
and 3.8% (20) Vulnerable – in addition, 4.0% (21) of
the species are considered as Near Threatened (Table 5,
Figure 13). One species (Allium jubatum J.F. Macbr.)
is Regionally Extinct within Europe and the EU; it is
native to Asiatic Turkey and Bulgaria, but according to
Mathew (1996), it has not been found in Bulgaria since
its original collection in 1844. Species classed as Extinct
or threatened (Critically Endangered, Endangered and
Vulnerable) at the European and EU 27 level are listed
in Table 6.
Table 5. Summary of numbers of selected CWR species within each category of threat
Threatened
categories
IUCN Red List categories
No. species Europe
(no. endemic species)
No. species EU 27
(no. endemic species)
Extinct (EX) 0 0
Extinct in the Wild (EW) 0 0
Regionally Extinct (RE) 1 (0) 1 (0)
Critically Endangered (CR) 19 (18) 18 (17)
Endangered (EN) 22 (18) 17 (13)
Vulnerable (VU) 25 (16) 20 (15)
Near Threatened (NT) 26 (13) 21 (11)
Least Concern (LC) 313 (45) 305 (27)
Data Deficient (DD) 166 (78) 139 (45)
Total number of species assessed 572 (188) 521 (128)
* This table does not include the Not Applicable species in Europe and/or the EU (species introduced after AD 1500 or species of
marginal occurrence). For the EU 27 assessment the Not Evaluated species (species which do not occur in the EU) are also excluded.
Figure 12. Red List status of CWR in Europe Figure 13. Red List status of CWR in the EU 27
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