United Nations List of Protected Areas

Arianna GranzieraWDPA Content OfficerProtected Areas Programme

What is it?

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre

It all began with...

1959 Mandate: 1959 UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

1962: UN List of National Parks and Equivalent Reserves

...for their contribution to the inspiration, culture and welfare of mankind,

valuable for ecological and scientific reasons... and also...for future

preservation of fauna and flora...

12 editions: last 2003

Evolution

2003 mandate UNEP Governing Council

• UNWP-WCMC’s & WDPA

• PA for global conservation

• Monitor commitment & protection

UN List 2003

• 2003: UN List of Protected Areas

• All protected areas

• From list to shapefile

From shapefile to....

UN List 2012

• Process launched in Nagoya, CBD COP 10

• UN List launched in UNCED Rio+20 2012• Cost 2,2 million USD• Raised 700,000 USD

Process

• List of PA • Standards• Process• Collaborative action• Reporting• Capacity building

Output

and more...

• UN MDGs Report 2010• HDR• Sustainable Development Indicators• GBO 3• PA Coverage and Overlay indicators

Indicators

Protected Areas Year

1,000 1962

40,000 1980

>100,000 2003

>140,000 2010

Global Protection

Percentage

Terrestrial 11.6

Marine 6.3

BY:•United Nations Statistics Division•United Nations Development Programme•United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)•Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (SCBD)•2010 Biodiversity indicators Partnership (2010 BIP)

Global Extent of Protected Areas

Management Effectiveness

EuropeanStudy2009-2010

CDDA & UN List

• Key partners: 50% of UN List

Thank You!

Arianna.Granziera@unep-wcmc.orgArianna.Granziera@unep-wcmc.org