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Pakistan

477
Total Protected Areas
1 With management effectiveness evaluations
Terrestrial and Inland Waters Protected Areas
Marine Protected Areas
Other effective area-based conservation measures
0
Total Other effective area-based conservation measures
Polygons/Points ratio
Polygons 21%
Points 79%
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Terrestrial and Inland Waters Protected Areas
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• Dotted line represents approximately the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir agreed upon by India and Pakistan. The final status of Jammu and Kashmir has not yet been agreed upon by the parties.
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Terrestrial and inland waters protected area coverage

19.21% Coverage

152,268km2 Land area covered

792,802km2 Total land area

12.00% 5th National Report coverage

PAME

0.02% With management effectiveness evaluations

149km2 Areas assessed

Marine protected area Coverage

1.23% Coverage

2,769km2 Marine and coastal area covered

225,115km2 Total marine and coastal area

0.00% 5th National Report coverage

PAME

0% With management effectiveness evaluations

0km2 Areas assessed

Disclaimer: These statistics might differ from those reported officially by countries due to difference in methodologies and datasets used to assess protected area coverage and differences in the base maps used to measure terrestrial and marine area of a country or territory.

IUCN Management Categories

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Governance types

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Sources 7

  1. Protected Areas of Pakistan Updated: 2024 Ministry of Climate Change, & Environmental Coordination, Islamabad
  2. Source is currently unknown Updated: - Not Reported
  3. Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance Updated: 2023 Ramsar Secretariat, on behalf of Ramsar Contracting Parties
  4. UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve Updated: 2020 UNESCO-MAB
  5. Protected areas of Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Part), Himalayas, India, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Viet Nam Updated: 2002 Conservation International, Washington, USA
  6. Review of the Protected Areas System of the Indomalayan Realm Updated: 1990 The Asian Bureau for Conservation (ABC)
  7. Protected areas of Pakistan Updated: 1990 Pakistan - National Council for Conservation of Wildlife, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Cooperatives

Designations

  • 95.18%
  • 4.82%

National designations

454
  • Biodiversity Conservation Area 2
  • Biosphere Reserve (BR) 3
  • Community Controlled Hunting Areas 60
  • Community Game Reserve (CGR) 100
  • Conservancy 7
  • Game Reserve (GR) 77
  • Marine Protected Area 2
  • National Park (NP) 37
  • Nature Reserve 1
  • Private Game Reserve (PGR) 19
  • Public Wildlife Reserve (PWR) 39
  • Sites of Special Scientific Interests (SSSIs) 4
  • Wetland 1
  • Wildlife Reserve (WR) 2
  • Wildlife Sanctuary (WS) 100

Regional designations

0

    International designations

    23
    • Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance 19
    • UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve 4

    Other designations

    0

      citation

      UNEP-WCMC (2025). Protected Area Profile for Pakistan from the World Database on Protected Areas, March 2025. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net

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      UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2025), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM) [Online], March 2025, Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.