EU Species Conservation Status Records — EEA BISE

Keyless. Pay per record. The assessed conservation status of Europe's protected species, by country and region.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) into clean, per-record data — the conservation status that member states assess for their protected species under the Habitats Directive, broken down by biogeographical region. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per species-region assessment, structured for conservation and biodiversity analysis, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

Every six years, member states assess whether each protected species is in favourable conservation status in each biogeographical region it occupies. This actor reads that assessment table and delivers one record per species-region-country entry: the EUNIS SPECIES identifier, the reporting country and area, the biogeographical REGION, and the conservation-status ASSESSMENT — its code and label, from Favourable through Unfavourable-Bad to Unknown — all carried as filed. It is the conservation-status layer of Europe's biodiversity reporting, the status companion to the species-threat cell.

Who buys this and for what job

• Conservation NGOs and biodiversity researchers tracking which species are in bad status, and where.
• Environmental consultancies benchmarking status across countries and regions.
• Policy and reporting teams who need the Article 17 status picture as clean rows.
• Data engineers who want the BISE species conservation-status table as clean rows from a keyless source.

EEA licence — reuse with acknowledgement

One licence rider travels on every record. EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)." Where third-party content is marked, it keeps its own terms. These are reported assessments as filed — not an assessment of this actor's making.

Species grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a conservation-status assessment for a species in a region — a species, a region and a status label, never a person. BISE reporting is at species / region level: the EUNIS id identifies a species, never a person; there is no contact or named-individual field in the source table, and none is selected or emitted. A person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop.

A note on scale, honestly

The source table holds 8,292 rows as verified by an exact COUNT(*) at build time, which matches the planning index for this category exactly. It spans reporting countries, biogeographical regions, and the protected species assessed in each. The live count above is authoritative.

Sample output

Real rows from a live run of this actor (first 5 rows, selected columns).

One full record from the same run, exactly as delivered:

{
  "record_id": "8:AT:Continental",
  "species_eunis_id": "8",
  "country_code": "AT",
  "country_name": "Austria",
  "biogeographical_region": "Continental",
  "assessment_code": "U2",
  "assessment_label": "Bad",
  "source": "EEA Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) — species conservation status by member state and region",
  "source_url": "https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) / Habitats Directive reporting. Reuse is permitted, including for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged: 'Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)'. Third-party content, where marked, keeps its own terms.",
  "attribution": "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) (discodata.eea.europa.eu).",
  "disclaimer": "Assessed CONSERVATION STATUS of Europe's protected species under the Habitats Directive Article 17 assessment, at species / member state / biogeographical-region grain from the EEA BISE database. Each record carries the EUNIS SPECIES identifier, the reporting country and area, the biogeographical REGION, and the conservation-status ASSESSMENT (code and label — Favourable, Unfavourable-Inadequate, Unfavourable-Bad, Unknown) VERBATIM. Species grain — the EUNIS id identifies a species, never a person; there is no contact or named-individual field in the source, none is selected or emitted, and a person-key guard runs on every record.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:34:07Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
species_conservation_status_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Delivered before charged. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
countryCode	string	—	Optional 2-letter country code (e.g. DE, FR).
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per species-region assessment. Representative example (values as reported):

{
  "record_id": "8:AT:Continental",
  "species_eunis_id": "8",
  "country_code": "AT",
  "country_name": "Austria",
  "biogeographical_region": "Continental",
  "assessment_code": "U2",
  "assessment_label": "Bad",
  "source": "EEA Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) — species conservation status by member state and region",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-30T00:00:00Z"
}

An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT records the robots check, the filters, rows seen and delivered, and whether charged equals delivered.

Field reference

Each record is one species-region assessment. Identity: record_id, species_eunis_id, country_code, country_name, and biogeographical_region. Assessment: assessment_code (e.g. FV, U1, U2, XX) and assessment_label (Favourable, Unfavourable-Inadequate, Unfavourable-Bad, Unknown). Provenance travels on every record: source, source_url, licence, attribution, disclaimer, and observed_at.

How a run works

A run first re-reads the source host's robots posture from your runtime — the EEA DiscoData host — and stops at the door if that ever changes. It pages the BISE species conservation-status table (filtered to your optional countryCode), ordered by the species identifier, and flattens each row to one record — carrying every code and label verbatim, never anything person-shaped — delivered before it is charged, so a blocked or empty run costs you nothing. The actor stops at your maxRecords ceiling and records charge_equals_delivered in the receipt.

Coverage and scope

The table holds 8,292 rows across reporting countries, biogeographical regions, and protected species. Because each record carries the species_eunis_id, the country_code, the biogeographical_region, and the assessment_label, segmenting by species, country, region, or status is straightforward. Pull one country, only the species in bad status, or the whole table to seed a biodiversity warehouse.

Working with the data

The assessments are a status layer, and the fields make them actionable. Because every record ties a species to a region and a status label, an analyst can count the share of species in each status band per country, find the species whose status varies between regions, and — joined to the species-threat cell on the EUNIS id — connect bad-status assessments to the threats reported for the same species.

Cost guidance

One species_conservation_status_record per delivered row: cost = rows delivered × your plan's per-record price. Scope with countryCode to keep runs bounded. 1,000 rows is $50 (Free) / $33.50 (Gold).

Honest limitations

• As reported. Status assessments are as filed by member states for the Habitats Directive reporting; this actor reformats, it does not audit or recompute.
• Species id, not name. The record carries the EUNIS species identifier; join it to a species dictionary for names.
• Latest cycle. This table carries the assessment as reported by member state and region; use the region field to keep comparisons clean.
• Acknowledge the EEA, and note there is no person data of any kind.

Differentiation

It is the conservation-STATUS grain, distinct from eu-species-threat-records (the threats to species) and the site-level cells — this cell records the assessed status per species and region. Its specific job is the BISE species conservation status.

A note on identifiers

The species_eunis_id is the stable EUNIS identifier for a species in the EEA's biodiversity information system — a species, never a person. It is the join key that ties this cell to the species-threat and preferred-habitat cells and to any external species dictionary for scientific and common names. Because the same identifier is used across every BISE cell and every reporting cycle, building a complete per-species picture — status, threats, preferred habitat — needs no fuzzy matching, just a join on this one field. The biogeographical_region adds the second axis the Habitats Directive assesses on, so a species can carry a different status in its Alpine range than in its Continental one, and both are kept as separate records rather than averaged away.

The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of pay-per-record data products:

• EU Species Threat Records — EEA BISE
• EU Protected Site Positive Impact Records — EEA
• EU Protected Site Species Inventory Records — EEA
• EU Waterbody Quality Records — EEA
• EU Nitrate Monitoring Records — EEA

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) (discodata.eea.europa.eu). EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)"; marked third-party content keeps its own terms. Species grain; the EUNIS id identifies a species, not a person; no contact or named-individual field is selected or emitted, no natural-person data of any kind. Reported assessments as filed, not an assessment.