Measuring the pulse of European biodiversity. European Red List of Reptiles.

This European Red List provides an updated summary of the conservation status of species of reptiles in Europe, evaluated according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (IUCN, 2012a) and IUCN’s global (IUCN, 2022) and regional (IUCN, 2012b) guidelines. It is a completely revised second edition with the inclusion of new data and incorporation of taxonomic changes that have taken place since the first edition (Cox and Temple, 2009). It is a comprehensive, region-wide assessment of reptiles and builds on this previous work, ensuring that it remains relevant for informing contemporary conservation of this group. It identifies species threatened with extinction at the European and EU27 Member State levels, the geographic areas in most need of protection and the major threats to European reptiles, so that appropriate policy measures and conservation actions can be taken to improve their status, based on the best available evidence. This European Red List is a completely revised second edition. It is a comprehensive, region-wide assessment of reptiles and builds on the previous work done for the first Status and Distribution of European Reptiles (Cox and Temple, 2009) and incorporates many new data compiled from literature and contributed from the personal databases of the assessors and reviewers, reflecting 15 years of accumulated additional research and improved understanding of European reptiles and their exposure and sensitivity to different threatening processes. The substantial amount of fieldwork data and accumulated knowledge means that this assessment is based on a robust trend analysis by many experts.