wdpar

Interface to the World Database on Protected Areas

Last update: 21 September 2023

Software version identifier: 1.3.4, 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.5, 1.3.7

Source code repository: https://github.com/cran/wdpar

Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0

Description

Fetch and clean data from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and the World Database on Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (WDOECM). Data is obtained from Protected Planet <https://www.protectedplanet.net/en>. To augment data cleaning procedures, users can install the 'prepr' R package (available at <https://github.com/dickoa/prepr>). For more information on this package, see Hanson (2022) <doi:10.21105/joss.04594>.

Cites work

wdpar: Interface to the World Database on Protected Areas