Species Threatened with Extinction in Brazil 2014

Natural Capital Accounting is an accounting framework that allows measuring and comparing, through time, the contribution of natural resources and ecosystems to the social and economic aspects of a given territory, as well as providing dynamic and standardized statistics for planning and decision-making in order to promote more efficient and sustainable choices in resource management. By recognizing the importance of integrating environmental data to the System of National Accounts - SNA, in order to account for ecosystem service use and register how this use by the economic system impacts the biodiversity assets, IBGE presents, in this publication, the results of the Threatened Species Accounts, developed in the context of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts - SEEA. This first version is based on the Red List of Threatened Species, from the International Union for Conservation of Nature - IUCN, for assessed species in South America. Specifically for the data analysis on Brasil, a compilation for the years 2010, 2014, and 2018 was made and a simplifyied version of the Red List Index - RLI was computed in different ecological and spatial profiles. As a starting point for future editions, a synthesis of the data from the National Lists of Threatened Species of Brazilian fauna and flora is presented, resulting from the assessments of the conservation status of the species of fauna and flora published by ICMBio and CNCFlora/JBRJ, respectively. Based on the data from the National Lists, the numbers of species by threat category are presented, disaggregated by the different Brazilian biomes and realms (terrestrial, freshwater and marine), as well as synthesis maps of information on the distribution of threatened species in the national territory. The present study, also made available on the IBGE website, contributes to the effort to apply the international recommendations contained in the System of environmental-economic accounting 2012: experimental ecosystem accounting manual, known as SEEA-EEA, developed by the United Nations, in the context of the Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (Ncaves) project in partnership with the European Union. The results presented here are expected to be a starting point for the necessary institutional arrangements to foster growing integration of biodiversity information in the decision-making processes, allowing the elaboration of other types of accounts and favouring the production of environmental statistics and indicators based on the best scientific knowledge available