EU Species Threat Records — EEA BISE

Keyless. Pay per record. The most important threats to Europe's protected species, by species and threat code.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) into clean, per-record data — the highly important THREATS reported for Europe's protected species under the Habitats Directive assessment. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per species-threat, 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

When member states assess the conservation status of Europe's protected species, they record the threats and pressures acting on each — agriculture, pollution, hydrological change, and more — and flag the ones that matter most. This actor reads that highly-important-threats table and delivers one record per species-threat: the EUNIS SPECIES identifier, the coded THREAT (the standard EU threats-and-pressures code and its label), and the reported QUANTITY/rank of how important it is — all carried as filed. It is the species-threat layer of Europe's biodiversity reporting, distinct from the site-level threats cell.

Who buys this and for what job

• Conservation NGOs and biodiversity researchers ranking the threats that matter most per species.
• Environmental consultancies linking species threats to the pressures behind them.
• Policy and agri-environment teams targeting the threat codes most often flagged as important.
• Data engineers who want the BISE species-threat 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 classifications as filed — not an assessment of this actor's making.

Species grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a threat to a species — a species identifier, a threat code, and a rank, never a person. BISE reporting is at species / threat 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 6,761 rows as verified by an exact COUNT(*) at build time, which matches the planning index for this category exactly. It spans the protected species and the threats flagged as highly important for 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:A02",
  "species_eunis_id": "8",
  "threat_code": "A02",
  "threat_label": "Conversion from one type of agricultural land use to another (excluding drainage and burning)",
  "rank": 1,
  "source": "EEA Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) — highly important threats to protected species",
  "source_url": "https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) / Natura 2000 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": "Highly important THREATS reported for Europe's protected species under the Habitats Directive Article 17 assessment, at species / threat grain from the EEA BISE database. Each record carries the EUNIS SPECIES identifier, the coded THREAT/pressure (the standard EU threats-and-pressures code and its label), and the reported QUANTITY/rank (how many assessments flagged it as highly important) 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": "2026-09-25T17:34:06Z"
}

Pricing

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

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

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
threatCode	string	—	Optional EU threats-and-pressures code to filter (e.g. A02, F01).
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

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

{
  "record_id": "8:A26",
  "species_eunis_id": "8",
  "threat_code": "A26",
  "threat_label": "Agricultural activities generating diffuse pollution to surface or ground waters",
  "rank": 4,
  "source": "EEA Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) — highly important threats to protected species",
  "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 highly-important threat to a species. Identity: record_id and species_eunis_id (the EUNIS species identifier, joinable to species dictionaries). Threat: threat_code (the EU threats-and-pressures code), threat_label (its standard label), and rank (the reported quantity/importance). 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 highly-important-threats table (filtered to your optional threatCode), ordered by the species identifier, and flattens each row to one record — carrying every coded label and value 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 6,761 rows across protected species and threat codes. Because each record carries the species_eunis_id, the threat_code, and the rank, segmenting by species or threat type is straightforward. Pull one threat code, or the whole table to seed a biodiversity warehouse; join species_eunis_id to a species dictionary for scientific names.

Working with the data

The threats are a diagnostic layer, and the fields make them actionable. Because every record pairs a species with a threat_code and a rank, an analyst can find the threats most often flagged as highly important across all species in one group-by, rank the threats facing a single species, and — joined to the site-level negative-impact cell — connect species-level threats to the sites where the same pressures are recorded.

The threats-and-pressures vocabulary

The threat_code comes from the EU's standard list of threats and pressures — the same controlled vocabulary used across the Habitats Directive reporting, with codes grouped by driver: agriculture (the A-codes), forestry, urbanisation, pollution, natural-system modification, climate change, and so on. Because the vocabulary is standardised across every reporting country and shared with the habitats and sites reporting, a threat such as "agricultural activities generating diffuse pollution" is coded identically for a species in Spain and one in Finland — so cross-country and cross-species comparison needs no translation layer, and the threat_label carried on every record makes the code human-readable without a lookup. Grouping the whole table by the leading letter of the code gives an instant picture of which broad drivers dominate the threats to Europe's protected species, and filtering to a single code isolates every species for which that pressure was flagged as highly important.

A note on identifiers

The species_eunis_id is the EUNIS identifier for a species — a stable key in the EEA's biodiversity information system, a species and never a person. It is the join key you use to attach scientific and common names from a species dictionary, and to line these threats up against the conservation-status and site cells that use the same identifier. Because the id is stable across the reporting, building a complete per-species picture needs no fuzzy matching.

Cost guidance

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

Honest limitations

• As reported. Threats and ranks are as filed by member states for the Habitats Directive assessment; 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 scientific and common names.
• Highly important only. This table holds the threats flagged as highly important, not every reported threat.
• Acknowledge the EEA, and note there is no person data of any kind.

Differentiation

It is the SPECIES-level threat grain, a distinct source table from the live eu-protected-site-negative-impact-records (site-level threats and pressures) — this cell records threats per species, not per site. Its specific job is the BISE highly-important species threats.

The NexGen Signal family

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

• EU Water Abstraction Records — EEA
• EU Renewable Freshwater Resource Records — EEA
• EU Waterbody Quality Records — EEA
• EU Historical Flood Event Records — EEA
• EU Protected Site Positive Impact 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 classifications as filed, not an assessment.