Percent of Land Area Protected by Country

Caution: Designation as a protected area is not an indication of how effectively the area is being managed and does not designate the type of protections the area is receiving (e.g., protected area categories defined by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature [IUCN]). There are also data/knowledge gaps for some countries due to difficulties in reporting national protected area data to the WDPA and/or determining whether a site conforms to the IUCN definition of a protected area. Protected areas with unknown location and/or extent were excluded from the GIS analysis.