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The following resources provide insights into protected and conserved areas at the regional level.
Regional Protected Planet Reports
Latin America and The Caribbean Protected Planet Report, 2020
This report analyses progress towards meeting the different criteria and elements of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 in 51 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Asia Protected Planet Report 2014
This report assesses progress towards the achievement of elements of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 in 24 selected countries in East Asia, South Asia and South-east Asia.
State of Protected and Conserved Areas (SOPACA) Reports
State of West African Marine Protected Areas 2022
This report offers in-depth analyses and outlines recommendations, opportunities and challenges relating to marine protected areas in the West African region which covers 13 coastal countries (Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Cabo Verde).
State of protected and conserved areas: Pacific Region (2022)
This report covers the IUCN region of Oceania, which comprises the following countries and territories: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands.
State of protected and conserved areas: Eastern and Southern Africa (2020 and 2024)
Two reports have been published bringing together information on protected and conserved areas for the whole Eastern and Southern Africa region. The Eastern and Southern Africa region covers 24 countries from South Africa in the south to Sudan in the north and four of the six Western Indian Ocean island nations. The second edition published in 2024 builds on the first edition published in 2020 and provides updates on how the region is managing and governing protected and conserved areas, effectively providing a regional update on the progress towards the achievement of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
First edition (2020):
Second edition (2024):
State of protected and conserved areas: Central Africa (2020)
The second edition of the State of Protected Areas in Central Africa 2020 takes a close look at the protected areas of COMIFAC member countries.
Tracking progress towards global targets for protected and conserved areas.