Conservation Assessment Tracking System (CATS)

Kew performs around two thousand conservation assessments every year, identifying highly threatened species and regions. A system is being developed to streamline the process of gathering and disseminating this data to get maximum impact for conservation.

IUCN Red List categories (image from Wikipedia)

Conservation assessments state the level of threat associated with a particular species or habitat. The assessment is often carried out using a system (e.g. IUCN Red List) that indicates the probability that the species will become extinct in the near future. Disseminating Kew’s conservation assessments to as wide an audience as possible is an essential part of ensuring conservation attention is given to the most threatened species and threatened areas in the world.

On this page we track Kew's conservation assessment output and also, as part of a wider compilation exercise, we show progress in plant assessments globally in response to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation - Target 2:

"An assessment of the conservation status of all known plant species, as far as possible, to guide conservation action"

Kew Gardens - Conservation Assessment Tracker*

*Please note that the results below are incomplete and the database is continuously being updated

View the raw data here: CATS_01_02_2013

Frequency and accumulation of Conservation Assessments by Kew Staff over time

Frequency and accumulation of GSPC assessments over time

GSPC assessments according to threat grouping (n = 1,786)

Count of species assessments per family