Palestine, State of

51 Total Protected Areas

0 With management effectiveness evaluations

Terrestrial Protected Areas

Marine Protected Areas

Other effective area-based conservation measures

0 Total Other effective area-based conservation measures

Polygons/Points ratio

Polygons 100%

Points 0%

Terrestrial Protected Areas Coverage

8.36% Coverage

517km² Land Area Protected

6,182km² Total Land Area

9% 5th National Report Coverage

PAME

0.0% With management effectiveness evaluations

0km² Areas Assessed

Marine Protected Areas Coverage

0.0% Coverage

0km² Marine and Coastal Area Protected

0km² Marine Area Protected

0% 5th National Report Coverage

PAME

0.0% With management effectiveness evaluations

0km² Areas Assessed

Disclaimer: These statistics might differ from those reported officially by countries due to difference in methodologies and datasets used to assess protected area coverage and differences in the base maps used to measure terrestrial and marine area of a country or territory.

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IUCN Management Categories

1. Ia 4, 7.84% View list
2. III 2, 3.92% View list
3. IV 17, 33.33% View list
4. V 1, 1.96% View list
5. Not Reported 27, 52.94% View list

Governance types

Federal or national ministry or agency 51 View list

Sources (1)

Protected Areas of the State of Palestine Updated: 2019 Environmental Resources Directorate-Environment Quality Authority Environment Quality Authority

Designations

National designations

Nature Reserve 51

Regional designations

International designations

Growth in protected area coverage

The graph excludes status years with no information reported (STAT_YR = 0).

Palestine, State of Protected Areas

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Umm er Rihan

El Marj

'Jabel el Aqra

citation

UNEP-WCMC (2020). Protected Area Profile for Palestine, State of from the World Database of Protected Areas, October 2020. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net