Protected Areas Programme

Protected Areas Virtual Library

Aid to locating web sites that have significant information on the world's protected areas.

World Heritage Information Network

An Internet tool jointly developed by WCMC and UNESCO for searching those web sites which contain information on both natural and cultural world heritage sites.

Protected Areas Resource Centre

A concept developed by WCPA and WCMC for providing information resources and services to support protected area professionals. Further information on the proposed programme and examples of potential services are provided.

Protected Areas Database

Access to the prototype protected areas database. Information is drawn from a larger database managed by WCMC. Both the larger database and the web interface will be upgraded later this year.

1997 UN List

Interactive access to the information published in the 1997 United Nations List of Protected Areas. The UN List is the definitive list of the world's protected areas, compiled by WCMC on behalf of IUCN, and published by IUCN. Similar access is available to the 1993 UN List.

Internet Map Server

Access to demonstrations on some of the mapping work on protected areas carried out by WCMC. Part of a new information service under development based on the WCMC Biodiversity Map Library built over the past 10 years.

World Heritage Sites

Standard format information sheets on all sites inscribed on the World Heritage List for natural or mixed natural and cultural reasons. These information sheets are compiled and maintained by WCMC on behalf of UNESCO.

Protected Areas of the Pacific Islands

Based on the IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania, compiled by WCMC in collaboration with IUCN and the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme. Update of this information by those familiar with the region is actively encouraged.

Protected Areas of Malaysia

An example of the many unpublished information sheets compiled by WCMC over the years in collaboration with national organizations.

Protected Areas of the World

Interactive access to Protected Areas of the World published for the World Parks Congress in 1992, with country by country descriptions of protected area systems. Some of the information is now fairly dated.

State of the World's Protected Areas

Paper presented at IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Symposium on Protected Areas in the 21st Century: From Islands to Networks Albany, Australia, 24-29th November 1997. Michael Green and James Paine.

World Heritage Global Strategy

Links to the various global strategy papers prepared by IUCN and WCMC, and to other papers systematically reviewing the distribution of World Heritage sites.

Nature conservation sites designated in application of international instruments at Pan-European level

Report prepared by Ben Delbaere (ECNC) and Javier Beltrán (WCMC), in cooperation with the Council of Europe, the European Environment Agency and the European Topic Centre on Nature Conservation, 1998.

Private Protected Areas

A Preliminary study of private initiatives to conserve biodiversity in selected African countries. Compiled by WCMC staff led by Colin Watkins, 1996.

Forest conservation in Asia Pacific

FAO Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/04 prepared by Jim Paine as part of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study. 1997. The report can also be downloaded as a word file.

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna

Examples of maps presented in a 1994 CAFF report of The State of Protected Areas in the Circumpolar Arctic 1994 . Prepared in cooperation with UNEP/GRID-Arendal, CAFF International Secretariat and CAFF National Contacts and Designated Agencies.

A Global Representative Systems of Marine Protected Areas

Compiled by WCPA in collaboration with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the World Bank, 1995. WCMC provided support, and incorporated the results of the survey into the database.