Explore protected areas, discover how we are protecting the planet and be part of the solution
Protected Planet - The latest initiative harnessing the World Database on Protected Areas
Be inspired by the most beautiful places on the planet. Explore the worlds national parks, wilderness areas and world heritage sites. Help us find and improve information on every protected area in the world. Protectedplanet.net lets you discover these incredible places through elegant mapping and intuitive searching. Protectedplanet.net wants you to contribute information about protected areas alongside national agencies and international organisations. Protectedplanet.net helps you understand what and where our natural resources are being conserved. If you are interested in analysing a global dataset on protected areas, you can download the data, today, here at protectedplanet.net.
Press release for protectedplanet.net
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
You can search and explore the WDPA database.
You can find points of interest and biodiversity data.
HOW DO WE USE THE INFORMATION?
We are automatically generating Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators of protected area coverage
HOW CAN YOU USE IT?
Download the most comprehensive global dataset of protected area in the world
Protectedplanet.net allows you to search in any language to find information about individual protected areas. If you don’t know exactly what you are looking for, you can explore the world with intuitive and beautiful maps, photo’s from ©Panoramio and ©Flickr and text descriptions from ©Wikipedia. Our aim is to play nicely with the web, make use of the huge resources out there and concentrate our efforts on delivering the most relevant and accurate protected areas information to the community.
Protectedplanet.net is the new face of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), a joint initiative between IUCN and UNEP-WCMC. Its humble beginnings started 30 years ago as a basic global list of national parks and has evolved into the only global, spatially referenced information source on parks and protected areas . We have created protectedplanet.net not only to showcase this wealth of information but also give tools to willing ‘citizen scientists’ who can feed their knowledge about protected areas into the WDPA.
The World Database on Protected Areas is managed at UNEP-WCMC in Cambridge, UK supported by IUCN staff and World Commission on Protected Areas members all over the world. It relies on the magnitude of work carried out by staff in institutions covering every country on the planet. Without this work from governments and NGOs alike, there would be no World Database on Protected Areas. For that we thank you.
If you are a national protected areas data manager and want to find out how to contribute to the WDPA, please contact protectedareas@unep-wcmc.org and our team will be happy to help you get started with our tools.
Organisations working on the project
protectedplanet.net was created by a collection of hard working organisations:
The team
Development Team
Informatics at UNEP-WCMC
Development Team
Informatics at UNEP-WCMC
Informatics believes in using open information and innovation to solve the biodiversity issues of our time.
WDPA team
WDPA data officers
WDPA team
WDPA data officers
Amy and Siobhan are the team working with the data contributors. Full to the brim with protected areas and GIS knowledge.
Vizzuality
Frontend development & visual design
Vizzuality
Frontend development & visual design
Frontend development & visual design. Vizzuality take enjoyment in being a small and productive company that delivers great user experiences for stories that matter.
