Protected Area Products

The Wadden Sea became the 200 natural site on the World Heritage List.

Protected Area Categories

 IUCN has set up a world-wide accepted system for categorising protected areas for more information click here

World Database on Protected Areas

WDPA

The World Database on Protected Areas

WDPA is a foundation dataset for conservation decision making. It contains crucial information from national governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, international biodiversity convention secretariats and many others. It is used for ecological gap analysis, environmental impact analysis and is increasingly used for private sector decision-making. For more information www.wdpa.org