World Map with current coverage: https://stepps00.github.io/Protected-Areas-Data/
Protected Areas Data is a series of openly-licensed spatial datasets, representing protected areas around the world. Each protected area is represented by a polygon geometry and a standardized set of properties. As of mid-2024, protected areas in 50 countries have been catalogued in Protected Areas Data.
According to the IUCN, a protected area is defined as “an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means” (1, 2). The data in this repository tries to capture an up-to-date set of these areas in Chile.
The datasets are released under a CC BY 4.0 license. Some third-party data sources, each with their own license terms, have been used or sourced when developing Protected Areas Data datasets in certain countries. In those cases, additional attribution may be required for use. Each of these third party dataset licenses falls under a CC-BY, CC0, or equivalent license.
Please see the sources folder in each per-country repository for input sources used to create the datasets.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bhutan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Chile
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Montenegro
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- United Arab Emirates