49 datasets found

Based on input from more than 100 experts, this book aims to provide the most detailed assessment ever of the worldwide distribution and conservation status of national parks...

This report aims to promote a better understanding of the underlying principals and scientific basis behind MPA network design, while disseminating experiences and lessons...

With the adoption of a new global biodiversity framework in 2020, there is a critical opportunity to set the world on a path to a sustainable future for biodiversity. Area-based...

The Asia Protected Planet Report 2014 is the first regional report of its kind. It assesses progress towards the achievement of elements of the Convention on Biological...

The first Protected Planet National Technical Series report, completed working closely with the Korea National Park Service (KNPS), focuses on the Republic of Korea and was...

The 2014 United Nations List of Protected Areas is a compilation of all designated protected areas in the world. This is the fourteenth edition since the publication of the...

This assessment, based on a series of independent studies, shows that the disastrous situation in Indonesia’s forests is driven mainly by international markets and well-...

The Global Database on Protected Area Management Effectiveness (GD-PAME) is the most comprehensive global database of management effectiveness assessments for protected areas....

UNEP’s post-conflict environmental assessment illuminates Afghanistan’s current levels of degradation, and sets forth a path that the country can take towards sustainable...

The purpose of this report is to compile a number of “vital” Arctic graphics that describe the Arctic, the livelihoods of Arctic indigenous peoples and the future well-being of...

This book is organised into national (or occasionally sub-national) accounts, each comprising a description of the national protected areas system, accompanied by a summary list...

The mission was commissioned by the United National Environmental Programme (UNEP), as one of five missions visiting a selection of environmentally important locations in...

Whilst much of UNEP’s focus is at the national level – building environmental institutions, improving technical expertise, and developing environmental management tools (such as...

The purpose of this report is two-fold: firstly, to provide the Government of Afghanistan with a policy document that will be useful in guiding development of its future...

The book is organised into national (or occasionally sub-national) accounts, each comprising a description of the national protected areas system, accompanied by a summary list...

The development of the UICN Green List aims to provide an accurate framework for protected area’s management. In 2019, 7 protected areas from North Africa were proposed for the...

The development of the UICN Green List aims to provide an accurate framework for protected area’s management. In 2019, 7 protected areas from North Africa were proposed for the...

National Protected Areas System

This indicator shows marine biodiversity protection by Mediterranean MPAs by combining areas of legal and managerial protection in an overall response index.

The indicator of management effort was made by summing all the overlapping MPAs on each 1ha pixel across the whole Mediterranean Sea (based on MAPAMED, the database on...