Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

About the publication - 2014 Species Threatened with Extinction in Brazil

Natural capital accounting is an accounting structure that allows measuring and comparing the contribution of natural resources and ecosystems to the social and economic aspects of a given territory over time. It can also provide dynamic and standardized statistics for planning and decision making, in order to promote more efficient and sustainable choices in the management of resources.

The IBGE puts out this publication recognizing the importance of integrating environmental data into the System of National Accounts - SCN, in order to consider the use of ecosystem services and to record how the use of the flow of these services by the economic system interferes with biodiversity assets. The results of the Threatened Species Account, elaborated within the scope of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting - SCEA, are presented in this study. This first version takes as reference the Red List of Threatened Species, of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), known as the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, for the species assessed in South America. Specifically for data analysis in Brazil, a compilation was made for the years 2010, 2014 and 2018 and the calculation of a simplified version of the Red List Index - ILV, the Red List Index - RLI, in different spatial and ecological scopes.

As a starting point for future editions, a synthesis of the data from the Official National Lists of Threatened Species of Fauna and Flora, resulting from the assessments of the conservation status of the species, published, respectively, by the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation- ICMBio) and the Centro Nacional de Conservação da Flora do Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro (National Center for Plant Conservation of the Botanic Garden in Rio de Janeiro- CNCFlora/JBRJ). From these data, the numbers of species are presented, by categories, disaggregated for the different Brazilian biomes and the types of ecosystem realms (terrestrial, freshwater and marine). The publication also brings maps of the distribution of the threatened species in the National Territory.

The present study, also available on the IBGE website, contributes to the adoption of the international recommendations contained in the "System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012: Experimental Ecosystem Accounting", SEEA-EEA manual, developed by the United Nations within the scope of the Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services - Ncaves), in partnership with the European Union.

The results presented here will hopefully be a starting point in the institutional arrangements necessary for an even greater integration of information on biodiversity in the decision-making processes, contributing, as a result, to the elaboration of other types of accounts and favoring the production of environmental statistics and indicators based on the best scientific knowledge available.