Red List Index (pollinator species) [BIP]
Red List Index (pollinator species) [BIP]
Indicator description
Biodiversity provides many different ecosystem services to people, at local to global scales. Most services are difficult to link to individual species but pollination is an exception, with multiple studies showing that exclusion of particular groups of pollinator species leads to reduction in crop productivity and value. This version of the RLI is based only on data for birds and mammals that are known or inferred to be pollinators and shows changes in the aggregate extinction risk of pollinator species over time. The decline in the Red List Index for pollinators indicates that ecosystems supporting them are not currently being adequately safeguarded.