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Red List for Britain’s Mammals

One quarter of native mammals now at risk of extinction in Britain – click here for our latest press release

Click on infographics below to download pdfs

Britain
England
Scotland
Wales

Click here for the complete Red List report PDF and rationale for the classifications 

Click here to download the spreadsheet .xlsx version

Mathews F, and Harrower C. (2020). IUCN – compliant Red List for Britain’s Terrestrial Mammals. Assessment by the Mammal Society under contract to Natural England, Natural Resources Wales and Scottish Natural Heritage. Natural England, Peterborough ISBN 978-1-78354-485-1

On mobile phone please scroll the table [below] horizontally to view all data

Species Origin GB England Scotland Wales Global
Hedgehog Native VU VU VU VU LC
European Mole Native LC LC LC LC LC
Common shrew Native LC LC LC LC LC
Pygmy shrew Native LC LC LC LC LC
Water shrew Native LC LC LC LC LC
Lesser white toothed shrew Non-native naturalised NT NT NA NA LC
European rabbit Non-native naturalised NA NA NA NA NT
Brown hare Non-native naturalised NA NA NA NA LC
Mountain hare Native NT NA NT NA LC
Red squirrel Native EN EN NT EN LC
Grey squirrel Non-native  NA NA NA NA LC
Eurasian beaver Native reintroduced EN CR EN NA LC
Hazel dormouse Native VU VU NA VU LC
Edible dormouse Non-native NA NA NA NA LC
Bank vole Native LC LC LC LC LC
Field vole Native LC LC LC LC LC
Orkney vole Non-native naturalised VU NA VU NA LC
Water vole Native EN EN NT EN LC
Harvest mouse Native NT LC CR VU LC
Wood mouse Native LC LC LC LC LC
Yellow-necked mouse Native LC LC NA LC LC
House mouse Non-native naturalised NA NA NA NA LC
Brown rat Non-native  NA NA NA NA LC
Black rat Non-native naturalised NA NA NA NA LC
Wildcat Native CR NA CR NA LC
European fox Native LC LC NT LC LC
Badger Native LC LC LC LC LC
Otter Native LC LC VU VU NT
Pine marten Native LC CR LC CR LC
Stoat Native LC LC LC NT LC
Weasel Native LC LC LC LC LC
Polecat Native LC LC EN LC LC
Mink Non-native  NA NA NA NA LC
Wild boar Native reintroduced DD DD DD DD LC
Red deer Native LC LC LC LC LC
Sika deer Non-native  NA NA NA NA LC
Fallow deer Non-native naturalised NA NA NA NA LC
Roe deer Native LC LC LC LC LC
Chinese water deer Non-native  NA NA NA NA VU
Reeves’ muntjac Non-native  NA NA NA NA LC
Greater horseshoe bat Native LC LC NA NT LC
Lesser horseshoe bat Native LC LC NA LC LC
Alcathoe bat Native DD DD DD DD DD
Whiskered bat Native DD DD DD DD LC
Brandt’s bat Native DD DD DD DD LC
Bechstein’s bat Native LC LC NA EN NT
Daubenton’s bat Native LC LC LC LC LC
Greater mouse-eared bat Native CR CR NA NA LC
Natterer’s bat Native LC LC LC LC LC
Serotine Native VU VU NA VU LC
Leisler’s bat Native NT NT NT NT LC
Noctule bat Native LC LC LC LC LC
Common pipistrelle bat Native LC LC LC LC LC
Soprano pipistrelle bat Native LC LC LC LC LC
Nathusius’ pipistrelle bat Native NT NT VU VU LC
Barbastelle Native VU VU NA VU NT
Brown long-eared bat Native LC LC LC LC LC
Grey long-eared bat Native EN EN NA NA LC

Under the IUCN Red List criteria, each species is allocated to one of the following categories, relating to imminent risk of extinction: Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN), Vulnerable (VU), Near Threatened (NT), Least Concern (LC), Data Deficient (DD) and Not Assessed (NA). The assessments of Regional Red List status for Great Britain have been formally approved by the Inter-Agency IUCN Red Listing Group. Country-level assessments and those conducted for non-native (naturalised) species followed the same IUCN Regional Red List Criteria. Whilst there is flexibility within the guidelines to allow these assessments to be made, there is no mechanism for these to be formally approved.

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