Replication data for "The uncertain future of protected lands and waters" - protected area base layer for Amazonia

We created a database of terrestrial and coastal protected areas (PAs) for all nine Amazonian countries following the IUCN definition for PAs and including only state-designated and state-managed PAs. We used the best available sources of archival data, including original legal documents, to confirm information about PAs. We included PAs that currently exist, as well as those that existed previously but have been degazetted. We note that this database differs from the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA) for several reasons:

• we focus on nationally-designated PAs and omit international or local designations

• we include previously protected areas

• we exclude other area-based conservation interventions other than state-designated and state-managed PAs (such as indigenous lands, privately protected areas, recreational sites, and community based natural resource management areas) which are included in the WDPA in certain countries

• We use the establishment date as provided in each PA’s gazettement legal document, rather than the Status Year field in the WDPA, which lists the year that the PA’s current designation was established (46)

• We use the spatial extent as provided in each PA’s gazettement legal document, rather than the spatial extent provided in the WDPA. The spatial extent in the WDPA (Rep_Area) is reported by nations and may represent the area as measured in GIS or paper maps, rather than the legally gazetted area.

See Table S16 for detailed information by country describing the sources of PA data used for the nine Amazonian countries. 

Citation of original paper: Golden Kroner, R. E., Qin, S., Cook, C. N., Krithivasan, R., Pack, S. M., Bonilla, O. D., Cort-Kansinally, K. A., Coutinho, B., Feng, M., Martínez Garcia, M. I., He, Y., Kennedy, C. J., Lebreton, C., Ledezma, J. C., Lovejoy, T. E., Luther, D. A., Parmanand, Y., Ruíz-Agudelo, C. A., Yerena, E., … Mascia, M. B. (2019). The uncertain future of protected lands and waters. Science, 364(6443), 881–886. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau5525