Protected Areas Archive

• Protected Areas Virtual Library - Aid to locating web sites that have significant information on the world's protected areas
• Protected Areas Resource Centre - A concept developed by WCPA and UNEP-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
• Prototype Protected Areas Database (Last Updated 2001)
• World Heritage Information Network - An Internet tool jointly developed by UNEP-WCMC and UNESCO for searching those web sites which contain information on both natural and cultural world heritage sites
• 1992 Protected Areas of the World: A review of national systems and 1991 IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania - Note: profiles are not available for countries recognised after 1991/2 e.g. East Timor
  

Reports and projects

• 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 UNEP-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 (UNEP-WCMC), in cooperation with the Council of Europe, the European Environment Agency and the European Topic Centre on Nature Conservation, 1998.
• Private Protected Areas - Preliminary study of private initiatives to conserve biodiversity in selected African countries. Compiled by UNEP-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.
• 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. UNEP-WCMC provided support, and incorporated the results of the survey into the database.
• A Global Overview of Forest Protected Areas on the World Heritage List (1997)
• Human Use of World Heritage Natural Sites - A Global Overview (1997)
• A Global Overview of Wetland and Marine Protected Areas on the World Heritage List (1997)