Download Protected Areas by Country

This function downloads protected areas for one country using the WDPA API.

get_wdpa(isocode, path = "wdpa", key = "WDPA_KEY")

Arguments

isocode	a character specifying the ISO-3 code of the country
path	the path (directory) to save spatial dataset (.gpkg). Default is: wdpa/.
key	a character providing the WDPA token name stored in the .Renviron file. Default is WDPA_KEY.

Value

A sf object (GEOMETRY) of protected areas defined in the EPSG 4326 with the following 19 attributes:

wdpa_id

the ID of the protected area on the WDPA database

pa_name

the name of the protected area on the WDPA database

original_name

the original name of the protected area

country_iso3

the ISO-3 code of the country

country

the name of the country

owner_type

the owner of the protected area

is_marine

a boolean: TRUE for marine and FALSE for terrestrial protected area

designation

the designation of the protected area

iucn_category

the IUCN category

no_take_status

the no take status

reported_area

the (reported) area of the protected area

reported_marine_area

the (reported) area of the marine part of the protected area

no_take_area

the (reported) area of the no take part of the protected area

legal_status

the legal status of the protected area

management_authority

the management authority

governance

the type of gouvernance

management_plan

the URL of the management plan

protected_planet

the URL of the protected area page on the Protected Planet website

legal_status_updated

the date of the last update of the legal status

Spatial data are also written on the hard drive in the folder path as a geopackage. Filename is structured as XXX_protectedareas.gpkg (where XXX is the ISO-3 code of the country). If the path folder does not exist it will created relatively to the current directory.

Note

Note that some geometries are POINTS not (MULTIPOLYGONS).

See also

wdpa_countries, get_countries

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## Get the ISO-3 code of Georgia ----
data("wdpa_countries", package = "worldpa")
wdpa_countries[grep("Georgia", wdpa_countries$"country_name"), 3:4]

##                                     country_name country_iso3
## 133                                      Georgia          GEO
## 235 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands          SGS

## Download Protected Areas for Georgia ----
worldpa::get_wdpa(isocode = "GEO", path = file.path("data", "wdpa"))
}