World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA)

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World Database on Protected Areas
(WDPA)
Barents Protected Areas Network: March 19th, 2013
Dr Naomi Kingston
Head of Protected Areas Programme

206,000+ records
covering 12 % of the worlds surface

Through Protected Planet the WDPA
is interactive and searchable

International Mandates
United Nations List of Protected Areas
“713 (XXVII). Establishment by the Secretary-General
of the United Nations of a list of national parks and
equivalent reserves.”
Convention on Biological Diversity
 World Database of Protected Areas
 Aichi Biodiversity Targets
 Protected Planet Report
 Database on Management Effectiveness
World Conservation Congress
World Parks Congress

1962
UN List of National Parks
and Equivalent Reserves
1981
World Database on
Protected Areas established
2003
UN List Mandate Renewed
and updated to include WDPA
2010
ProtectedPlanet.net
Online data portal for WDPA
1975
IUCN Categories system
began to be developed
1994
Six IUCN Categories
published
2008
Revised IUCN
categories published
2014
World Parks Congress, Sydney
? Updated UN List published
? WDPA updated to include
Management/Governance data
? 2014 Protected Planet report
History