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Protected areas with multiple coterminous or overlapping designations (e.g. Northeast Greenland National Park and the corresponding Biosphere Reserve) are listed only once. Currently, Marae Moana is the largest protected area in the world with a total area larger than Mexico (1,964,375 km 2 ).
The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the largest assembly of data on the world's terrestrial and marine protected areas, containing more than 260,000 protected areas as of August 2020, with records covering 245 countries and territories throughout the world. [1]
Mountains: Nationally designated protected areas cover 14.3% of the world's mountain areas, and these mountainous protected areas made up 32.5% of the world's total terrestrial protected area coverage in 2009. Mountain protected area coverage has increased globally by 21% since 1990 and out of the 198 countries with mountain areas, 43.9% still ...
List of protected areas of Cambodia; List of protected areas of Cameroon; List of protected areas in Cape Verde; List of protected areas of the Central African Republic; List of national nature reserves of China; List of protected areas of China; List of protected areas of the Comoros; List of protected areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) covers internationally designated protected areas, known as biosphere or nature reserves, which are meant to demonstrate a balanced relationship between people and nature (e.g. encourage sustainable development). [1] They are created under the Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB).
Protected areas of the Central African Republic (3 C, 10 P) Protected areas of Chad (2 C, 7 P) Protected areas of Chile (12 C, 2 P) Protected areas of China (8 C, 18 P)
The IUCN protected area categories are: IUCN Category Ia — Strict Nature Reserve; IUCN Category Ib — Wilderness Area; IUCN Category II — National Park; IUCN Category III — Natural Monument or Natural Feature; IUCN Category IV — Habitat management area / Species Management Area; IUCN Category V — Protected Landscape / Protected Seascape
IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). [1] [2] The enlisting of such areas is part of a strategy being used toward the conservation of the world's natural environment and ...