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The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) is a set of web services and applications that can be used primarily to assess, monitor, report and possibly forecast the state of and the pressure on protected areas at multiple scales. The data, indicators, maps and tools provided by the DOPA are relevant to a number of end-users including policy makers, funding agencies, protected area agencies and managers, researchers and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The information can be used , for example, to support spatial planning, resource allocation, protected area development and management, and national and international reporting. Using global reference datasets, the DOPA supports global assessments but also provides a broad range of consistent and comparable indicators at country, ecoregion and protected area level.

Contributors

Andrea Mandrici; Bastian Bertzky; Eduardo Garcia Bendito; Giacomo Delli; Gregoire Dubois; Luca Battistella; Lucy Bastin; Mariagrazia Graziano; Michele Conti; Santiago Saura Martínez de Toda

How to cite

Dubois, Grégoire; Mandrici, Andrea; Delli, Giacomo; Battistella, Luca; Bastin, Lucy; Garcia Bendito, Eduardo; Graziano, Mariagrazia; Saura Martínez de Toda, Santiago; Conti, Michele; Bertzky, Bastian (2026): Digital Observatory For Protected Areas 3. European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.R19F9JG PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/jrc-dopa-maps-and-datasets

Keywords

BiodiversityConservationProtected Areas

Data access

Digital Observatory For Protected Areas V3.0
Excel XLSX

XLSX is the default file format for Excel 2007 and later workbook used for Microsoft Excel spreadsheet which features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language. XLSX is in reality a ZIP compressed archive with a directory structure of XML text documents.
Downloadable file

A downloadable file for the dataset.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • This dataset provides the main information extracted from the DOPA Explorer 3.0 (version of November 2018) at country, ecoregion and protected areas levels.

Digital Observatory For Protected Areas V3.1
Excel XLSX

XLSX is the default file format for Excel 2007 and later workbook used for Microsoft Excel spreadsheet which features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language. XLSX is in reality a ZIP compressed archive with a directory structure of XML text documents.
Downloadable file

A downloadable file for the dataset.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • This dataset provides the main information extracted from the DOPA Explorer 3.1 (version of April 2019) at country, ecoregion and protected areas levels.

Publications

Publication
Digital Observatory for Protected Areas v3.0
Dubois, G., Mandrici, A., Delli, G., Battistella, L., Bastin, L., Garcia Bendito, E., Graziano, M., Saura Martinez De Toda, S., Conti, M. and Bertzky, B., Digital Observatory for Protected Areas v3.0, European Commission, 2018, JRC115972.
European Commission

  • The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) is a set of web services and applications that can be used primarily to assess, monitor, report and possibly forecast the state of and the pressure on protected areas at multiple scales. The data, indicators, maps and tools provided by the DOPA are relevant to a number of end-users including policy makers, funding agencies, protected area agencies and managers, researchers and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The information can be used , for example, to support spatial planning, resource allocation, protected area development and management, and national and international reporting. Using global reference datasets, the DOPA supports global assessments but also provides a broad range of consistent and comparable indicators at country, ecoregion and protected area level.

    This dataset provides the main information extracted from the DOPA Explorer 3.0 (version of November 2018) at country, ecoregion and protected areas levels.

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
gregoire.dubois (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
irregular

The event occurs at uneven intervals.

Language(s)
English

English is a member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. It is an official language of almost 60 sovereign states and is now a global lingua franca.It is the third-most-common native language in the world and it is widely learned as a second language.

Data theme(s)
Environment

dataset theme covering the domain of environment, defined as the interaction of all living species, climate, weather, and natural resources that impact human survival and economic activity
Science and technology

dataset theme covering the domains of science and technology, with science being the systematic pursuit of knowledge through testable explanations and predictions across natural, social, and formal disciplines, and technology encompassing the collective techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in producing goods, providing services, or achieving objectives like scientific research

Geographical name(s)
World
Issued date
2018-01-01
Created date
14 Dec 2018 10:40
Modified date
10 Dec 2025 11:08
Landing page
http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/jrc-dopa-maps-and-datasets
Other identifiers
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