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Jalisco agave sourcing region, Mexico

20.6600°N, 103.3500°W · 50 km radius · Screened 2026-09-01 04:22 UTC
Sources assessed: GBIF · Not assessed on this run: WDPA, KBA, IUCN Red List (see §7)

RISK TIER · HIGH

§1

Site details

Every screen starts by pinning down where, and how sure we are about it. A region-level location is screened at a wider radius than a street address, and the report says which one you are looking at.

Site name: Jalisco agave sourcing region
Operational status: Sourcing region (value chain) — not an owned or leased site
Location source: Named in the client's sustainability report; geocoded to the regional centroid
Location precision: Region-level · uncertainty ±25 km · screened at 50 km radius
Screening radius: 50 km (region default; owned sites use 10 km)
Reporting basis: ESRS E4 value-chain scope; TNFD LEAP — Locate

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Summary of findings

HIGH — 155 threatened species have occurrence records within 50 km, including 18 Critically Endangered, 63 Endangered and 74 Vulnerable. The tier is set by a fixed rule: any Critically Endangered species recorded within the radius → HIGH. Record age does not change the tier — it changes the caveat. Of the eighteen CR records, eight are recent (≤10 years), one historical, eight stale (25+ years) and one undated; the older ones are caveated in §5. Across all 155 species, 69 are recent, 13 historical and 73 stale. Two nectar-feeding bats that pollinate wild agave are recorded in the radius — a direct dependency as well as an impact exposure.

What this means for disclosure: the client's current report does not mention this region in its biodiversity section. §6 drafts the language ESRS E4 and TNFD expect.

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Protected areas and Key Biodiversity Areas

Distance from the site to the boundary of each designated area within the radius, with its IUCN management category. Illustrative These rows are from TraqBio's documented demo scenario; a client run measures them live from Protected Planet (WDPA) and BirdLife's KBA dataset.

Protected areas within 50 km
Distance	Name	IUCN cat.	Designation	Source
8.4 km	Bosque La Primavera	II	Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna (national)	Protected Planet / WDPA
34.1 km	Sierra de Quila	VI	Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna (national)	Protected Planet / WDPA
Inside	Jalisco Highlands	—	Key Biodiversity Area	BirdLife International via GBIF

A site inside a KBA, or within 10 km of an IUCN category I–II area, triggers the ESRS E4 SBM-3 datapoint on “sites in or near biodiversity-sensitive areas” regardless of species findings. The report says so explicitly rather than leaving the reader to infer it.

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Threatened species recorded within 50 km

Live GBIF occurrence data, 1 September 2026. Threat category is GBIF's annotation of the IUCN Red List; on a client run it is re-verified against the Red List API. Obs is the number of occurrence records; Last seen is the most recent record's year; Recency is graded so an old record is never presented with the confidence of a fresh one. Showing 12 of 155 — the full list ships with the report.

Status	Species	Common name	Obs	Last seen	Recency
CR	Agave valenciana	Valencia agave	2	2023	recent
CR	Cedrela odorata	Spanish cedar	8	2025	recent
CR	Cambarellus prolixus	Dwarf crayfish	20	1979	stale
CR	Campephilus imperialis	Imperial woodpecker	7	1892	stale
CR	Zea perennis	Perennial teosinte	1	—	undated
EN	Leptonycteris nivalis	Mexican long-nosed bat	2	2017	recent
EN	Amazona finschi	Lilac-crowned amazon	276	2026	recent
EN	Agave guadalajarana	Guadalajara agave	183	2026	recent
EN	Magnolia pugana	—	22	2025	recent
EN	Ambystoma flavipiperatum	Yellow-peppered salamander	102	1979	stale
EN	Bombus steindachneri	Bumblebee	57	1976	stale
VU	Leptonycteris curasoae	Southern long-nosed bat	3	1949	stale

Dependency flag. Leptonycteris nivalis and L. curasoae are nectar-feeding bats and documented pollinators of wild agave. For an agave-sourcing business this is not only an impact finding but an ecosystem-service dependency under TNFD's Evaluate step — the crop's wild genetic base depends on them.

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Why HIGH — and what to be careful about

The tier comes from a documented rule, not a judgement call, so the rule that fired is printed. So are the caveats: they are generated from the record's age, using fixed wording, so an auditor sees the same grading on every site.

Rule that fired

Critically Endangered species present → HIGH — satisfied eighteen times over, including by recent records of Agave valenciana (2023), Cedrela odorata (2025) and Acer binzayedii (2026). A HIGH is never softened by missing or old data: a stale record earns a stronger caveat, not a lower tier, because an unverified absence is not evidence of absence. The other way round does apply — a LOW or MEDIUM that rests on a source that failed is reported as INDETERMINATE rather than as a clean pass.

Recency caveats (as printed in the report)

Campephilus imperialis (CR, as recorded in GBIF occurrence data) has no confirmed observation at this location in over 130 years, with the most recent record dating to 1892. This finding indicates historical rather than confirmed current presence and should be treated as a prompt for site-level ecological verification, not as evidence of an active population.
Ambystoma flavipiperatum (EN, as recorded in GBIF occurrence data) has no confirmed observation at this location in over 45 years, with the most recent record dating to 1979. This finding indicates historical rather than confirmed current presence and should be treated as a prompt for site-level ecological verification, not as evidence of an active population.
Zea perennis (CR, as recorded in GBIF occurrence data) has occurrence records at this location, but no observation date was retrieved for it within the records sampled for this screen. Its recency could not be established and it is graded as historical by default.

Threat categories on this run are GBIF's annotation and were not re-verified against the IUCN Red List API; a client report does that verification and stamps the date it was checked. Two garden species (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Oxalis corniculata) carry a CR annotation in GBIF that the Red List check would resolve — this is exactly why the verification step exists.

§6

Draft disclosure language

Mapped to the ESRS E4 datapoints and TNFD LEAP steps the findings speak to. This is a starting draft for your own sustainability and legal teams to adapt — not legal or assurance advice.

ESRS E4 SBM-3 Sites near sensitive areas: Disclose the region as a value-chain location in or near biodiversity-sensitive areas.
“Our agave sourcing region in Jalisco, Mexico, lies within the Jalisco Highlands Key Biodiversity Area and within 10 km of Bosque La Primavera (IUCN category II). We do not own or operate sites in this region; our exposure is through purchased agave.”
ESRS E4 IRO-1 Impacts & dependencies: State the dependency explicitly — it is what distinguishes a biodiversity risk from a generic one.
“Screening of publicly available occurrence data identified 155 threatened species recorded within 50 km of this region, including two nectar-feeding bat species (Leptonycteris nivalis, L. curasoae) that are documented pollinators of wild agave. We consider wild-agave pollination a material ecosystem-service dependency of our supply.”
ESRS E4-5 Impact metrics: Report the counts, with their basis and their limits.
“Number of sourcing regions screened: 1. Regions in or near sensitive areas: 1. Threatened species with records within the screening radius: 155 (18 CR, 63 EN, 74 VU), of which 3 CR records are from the last 10 years. Data: GBIF occurrence records, screened 1 September 2026; threat categories per IUCN Red List. Records older than 25 years are treated as prompts for verification, not evidence of current presence.”
TNFD LEAP Locate · Evaluate: This screen is the Locate step done with a named data source, and the first pass at Evaluate (dependencies). Assess and Prepare — materiality and response — remain the company's work; the report says so rather than implying it has done them.

§7

Data sources, licences and limits

Every report ends with this block, because a finding that cannot be traced to its source is not a finding.

Assessed on this run: GBIF occurrence search (155 species, 50 km, threatened categories only)
Not assessed on this run: WDPA / Protected Planet, Key Biodiversity Areas, IUCN Red List API — out of scope for this screen; their risks are neither confirmed nor excluded. Rows in §3 are illustrative.
Citation: GBIF occurrence search, no citable snapshot on this run. Authoritative client runs use a GBIF download with a DOI, so the exact dataset can be re-opened years later.
Licences: Commercial reports use only CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records; records under non-commercial licences are excluded and the exclusion is counted.
Queried at: 2026-09-01T04:22:06Z

Protected Planet (2026). The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. www.protectedplanet.net
Occurrence data downloaded from GBIF.org on 1 September 2026.
Threat assessments sourced from IUCN Red List. iucnredlist.org
Key Biodiversity Areas data sourced from BirdLife International via GBIF.

Screening-level analysis, not legal or assurance advice. This sample is illustrative. It is not a client deliverable, names no client, and should not be relied on for any disclosure.

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