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THE NATIONAL RED LIST OF NORTH MACEDONIA

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The National Red List process in North Macedonia

In the frames of  the GEF/UN Environment project “Achieving Biodiversity Conservation through Creation and Effective Management of Protected Areas and Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Land Use Planning”, IUCN ECARO guided the first steps in the official National Red List development, resulting in National Red Lists for two complete taxonomic groups, reptiles and amphibians, as well as a Priority List for red-listing vascular plant species and a limited number of Red List assessments for vascular plants.

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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

This website presents the National Red List of the Republic of North Macedonia. The National Red List is based on the principles and methodologies of the global IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, or in short: the IUCN Red List This section gives a brief background on the global roots of the National Red List. The global IUCN Red List uses a set of five Criteria to categorise species according to their risk of becoming extinct in the near future. This assessment of extinction risk is based on an extensive compilation of data available…
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Regional and National Red Lists

The value of the global IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is widely recognised. It is extensively used as a tool for guiding policy at international levels. However, extinction risk is often not constant across a species’ global range: in some areas its populations may be under greater threat than in others areas. Conducting Red List assessments at regional or national level can provide more relevant information for its conservation at more local scales. Red Lists assessments that cover only part of the globe are usually referred to as…
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The National Red List of North Macedonia

In 2017, the need for National Red Lists across a broad range of taxonomic groups in North Macedonia had already been on the conservation agenda for several years. The need had been recognised by academia, NGOs and governmental agencies alike: strategies that include National Red List objectives are the National Strategy for Nature Protection with Action Plan (2017-2027) and the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (2018-2023). It was also acknowledged explicitly in national legislation: the Law on Nature Protection…
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