How well are different ecosystem types, as indicated by land cover, preserved and how strong are anthropogenic changes affecting their distribution in a given area? Human pressures are constantly increasing and it is important to monitor the consequences of the associated changes on the environment, in particular inside and around protected areas to ensure that natural ecosystems and their
associated species and ecosystem functions (e.g. goods and services) are preserved. By comparing land cover maps over time at the country, ecoregion and protected area level, land use changes can be identified.
Indicator unit: Natural areas and their protection statistics are expressed in km2 of the area of interest.
Area of interest: Natural areas and their protection statistics have been generated for each country.
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Data Uploaded by Luca Battistella using the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas Services (2022)
Response (Policies and Goals/Targets)
Target 11 on Protected Areas
15.2: By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
Goal 15. Protect terrestrial ecosystems
Technical Reference/Fact Sheet
Global Data
The natural area variable is extracted from the Copernicus Global 100m Land Cover map 2019 by aggregating all land cover classes except ‘Urban/Built-Up’ and ‘Cultivated and Managed vegetation/agriculture (cropland)’, including therefore areas where land cover is not heavily disturbed by man’s activities.
https://rest-services.jrc.ec.europa.eu/services/d6dopa/dopa_42/get_dopa_country_all_inds?format=json
iso3
iso3
{"name":"Country ", "show": true, "nameLocation": "middle", "nameGap": 80, "type":"category", "data":"country_name"}
{"name":"Natural Areas (km2)", "nameLocation": "middle", "nameGap": 80, "type":"value", "data":"lc_copernicus_land_natural_sqkm"}
{"name":"Natural Areas (km2)", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Natural Areas (km2)", "data":"lc_copernicus_land_natural_sqkm"}
{"name":"Natural Areas protection (km2)", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Natural Areas protection (km2)", "data":"lc_copernicus_land_natural_prot_sqkm"}
Descending
No
REST
5
Natural Breaks (Jenks)
sequential-11
National Data
The natural area variable is extracted from the Copernicus Global 100m Land Cover map by aggregating all land cover classes except ‘Urban/Built-Up’ and ‘Cultivated and Managed vegetation/agriculture (cropland)’, including therefore areas where land cover is not heavily disturbed by man’s activities.
https://rest-services.jrc.ec.europa.eu/services/d6dopa/dopa_42/get_dopa_country_all_inds?format=json&country_code=NUM
iso3
iso3
{"name":"Country ", "show": true, "nameLocation": "middle", "nameGap": 80, "type":"category", "data":"country_name"}
{"name":"Natural Areas (km2)", "nameLocation": "middle", "nameGap": 80, "type":"value", "data":"lc_copernicus_land_natural_sqkm"}
{"name":"Natural Areas (km2)", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Natural Areas (km2)", "data":"lc_copernicus_land_natural_sqkm"}
{"name":"Natural Areas protected (km2)", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Natural Areas protected (km2)", "data":"lc_copernicus_land_natural_prot_sqkm"}
Descending
No
REST
un_m49
5
Natural Breaks (Jenks)
