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source: A. N. James, M. J.B. Green and J. R. Paine, ‘A Global Review of Protected Area Budgets and Staff’, WCMC Biodiversity Series No.10, 1999.

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Adequate funding is essential to assure a real protection…

According to a World Conservation Monitoring Centre survey on over 600 protected area agencies throughout the world:
  • in 1996, the global budget* for protected areas were US$893/km².


  • Budgets range from less than US$1/km² in Angola, Cambodia and Laos, to over US$1,000,000/km² in St. Lucia.
Globally, protected area expenditure is concentrated in the developed countries**:
  • in the developed countries, the expenditure is US$2,058/km², compared to only US$157/km² in the developing countries,


  • developed countries account for 90% of sampled protected area expenditure, but only 41% of the total area protected;


  • while developing countries account for a mere 10% of expenditure but have nearly 60% of the area under protection.

* Budget data was provided by 108 countries with 3.7 million km² under protection.
** The developed country regions are North America, Australia/New Zealand, Europe, and East Asia (which includes only Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea).
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