2014 United Nations List of Protected Areas
Publication date: 2014
The aim of the present report is to provide an up-to-date synopsis of the World’s current protected area network in 2014. Significant changes have occurred in countries’ protected area networks since the publication of the last edition on the United Nations List of Protected Areas in 2003, 11 years ago.
The 2014 edition of the List reflects the significant progress made in the expansion of protected area networks, from just 9,214 sites in 1962 to over 209,000 in 2014. It is also a testimony to the great political commitment that countries have shown towards this global conservation priority. The United Nations List of Protected Areas complements the Protected Planet Report’s detailed assessment of Protected Areas by helping to track progress towards reaching the quantitative aspect of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11: how close we are to reaching 17 per cent coverage of terrestrial areas and 10 per cent of nationally administered marine areas by 2020.
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