This dataset contains information about countries listed in the Protected Planet project (https://www.protectedplanet.net). This dataset has been built using the Protected Planet API the 2021/02/12. For a more up-to-date version, please use the function get_countries.

wdpa_countries

Format

A data frame with 248 rows (countries) and the following 5 columns:

region_name

the name of the region

region_iso2

the ISO-2 code of the region

country_name

the name of the country

country_iso3

the ISO-3 code of the country

pas_count

the number of protected areas per country

Source

https://www.protectedplanet.net/c/unep-regions