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The USGS Gap Analysis Program (GAP) manages a Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) that includes areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreation and cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC) tracks global progress toward biodiversity protection targets (Aichi Target 11) enacted by the Convention for Biological Diversity(CBD) through the World Database for Protected Areas (WDPA). In 2008, GAP began collaborating with WCMC and International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) protected areas experts to submit...
NOTE: A more current version of the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is available: PAD-US 3.0 https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Q9LQ4B. The USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the nation's inventory of protected areas, including public land and voluntarily provided private protected areas, identified as an A-16 National Geospatial Data Asset in the Cadastre Theme (https://communities.geoplatform.gov/ngda-cadastre/). The PAD-US is an ongoing project with several published versions of a spatial database including areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity, and other natural (including extraction), recreational, or cultural uses, managed for these purposes...
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