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The World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) is the world's premier network of protected and conserved areas expertise. The Commission has over 2500 members spanning 140 countries who provide strategic advice to policymakers and work to strengthen capacity and investment for protected areas establishment and management. Learn More.
- Our Work | IUCN
Vancouver, Canada, 6 February 2023 (IUCN) – IUCN and the...
- Our Work | IUCN
The World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) is the world's premier network of protected and conserved areas expertise. The Commission has over 2500 members spanning 140 countries who provide strategic advice to policymakers and work to strengthen capacity and investment for protected areas establishment and management.
The World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) is one of six commissions of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Protected Planet is the most up to date and complete source of data on protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs), updated monthly with submissions from governments, non-governmental organizations, landowners and communities.
The session will showcase the role of fairly and effectively managed protected and conserved areas in addressing the pandemic risk associated with diversity loss and in supporting wildlife and human health.
The objectives of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas for 2021–2024, aligned with the IUCN Programme 2021–2024 and the Strategic Plan (the Promise of Sydney) adopted at the 2014 World Parks Congress, are to: Catalyse and support global efforts to expand and improve systems of protected areas and OECMs that result in successful ...
The IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas gives international guidance on the categorisation of protected areas, through its Protected Area Management Categories. These categories are recognised worldwide and facilitate a global system for defining and recording protected areas. [ 6] .
