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Nauru
| Country Name | ISO Alpha-2 Code | ISO Alpha-3 Code | BIOPAMA Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nauru | NR | NRU | Pacific |
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?Protected area coverage was calculated based on the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) August 2014 for the UNEP-WCMC Protected Planet Report 2014 (Juffe-Bignoli et al. 2014). The number of protected areas was derived from the same WDPA version and includes only protected areas with the status ‘designated’. All protected areas with a marine component are counted as marine protected areas.
Key protected area stats
Key biodiversity links
(includes latest NBSAP and CBD National Report)
?This data is provided by the World Bank and can be found here: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator.
Key country indicators
?This table includes all designated protected areas for the country included in the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) August 2014 (IUCN and UNEP-WCMC 2014).
?Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity according to globally standardised criteria. They are used by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to assess if the global protected area system adequately covers ‘areas of particular importance for biodiversity’ as per Aichi Biodiversity Target 11. Only two subsets of KBAs have been identified across virtually all countries: Alliance for Zero Extinction Sites (AZEs) and Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs). The KBA protection stats provided here come from Butchart et al. (2015). They are based on the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) January 2013. More information on the AZEs and IBAs datasets and their completeness can be found in Butchart et al. (2015).
Alliance for Zero Extinction sites (AZEs)
This country did not have any AZEs in the dataset at the time of the analysis.
?Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity according to globally standardised criteria. They are used by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to assess if the global protected area system adequately covers ‘areas of particular importance for biodiversity’ as per Aichi Biodiversity Target 11. Only two subsets of KBAs have been identified across virtually all countries: Alliance for Zero Extinction Sites (AZEs) and Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs). The KBA protection stats provided here come from Butchart et al. (2015). They are based on the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) January 2013. More information on the AZEs and IBAs datasets and their completeness can be found in Butchart et al. (2015).
Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs)
This country did not have any IBAs in the dataset at the time of the analysis.
?The terrestrial ecoregions of the world (TEOW; Olson et al. 2001) provide a biogeographic classification of the world’s terrestrial ecosystems. They are used by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to measure progress towards the ecological representativeness of the global protected area system called for in Aichi Biodiversity Target 11. The ecoregion protection stats provided here come from the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA). They are based on the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) August 2014 and were used in the UNEP-WCMC Protected Planet Report 2014 (Juffe-Bignoli et al. 2014).
Terrestrial ecoregions
No terrestrial ecoregions found in this country.
?The marine ecoregions of the world (MEOW; Spalding et al. 2007) provide a biogeographic classification of the world’s coastal and shelf waters (< 200 m depths). They are used by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to measure progress towards the ecological representativeness of the global protected area system called for in Aichi Biodiversity Target 11. The ecoregion protection stats provided here come from the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA). They are based on the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) August 2014 and were used in the UNEP-WCMC Protected Planet Report 2014 (Juffe-Bignoli et al. 2014).
Marine ecoregions
| Ecoregion name | % of country covered | % of ecoregion protected in country | % of ecoregion protected worldwide | % of ecoregion within country | % country contribution to protection worldwide |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilbert/Ellis Islands | 0.08 | 0.0 | 0.39 | 1.23 | 0.0 |
Land cover classes
This tab will show, among other things, pie charts with the country's land cover stats (GLC 2000 and GlobeCover 2005).
?The indicative species numbers provided here come from the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA). The numbers include those species whose range intersects with the terrestrial and/or marine (Exclusive Economic Zone out to 200 nautical miles from the coastline) boundary of the country. Only selected globally assessed taxonomic groups are shown. The species ranges and conservation status are from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species August 2014. The intersection followed the methodology described in Le Saout et al. (2013).
Indicative number of amphibian, bird and mammal species
| Class | Total number of species (sum of CR, EN, VU, NT, LC and DD) | Total number of threatened species (sum of CR, EN and VU) | Critically Endangered (CR) | Endangered (EN) | Vulnerable (VU) | Near Threatened (NT) | Least Concern (LC) | Data Deficient (DD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aves |
48 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 36 | 0 |
Mammalia |
25 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
Indicative number of marine species in selected taxonomic groups
| Class | Total number of species (sum of CR, EN, VU, NT, LC and DD) | Total number of threatened species (sum of CR, EN and VU) | Critically Endangered (CR) | Endangered (EN) | Vulnerable (VU) | Near Threatened (NT) | Least Concern (LC) | Data Deficient (DD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Actinopterygii |
199 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 177 | 10 |
Anthozoa |
331 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 101 | 159 | 9 |
Chondrichthyes |
20 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
Hydrozoa |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Amphibia species list
No Species found in this country
Aves species list
| Common name | Status | Taxon | Kingdom | Phylum | Order | Family | Custom text | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finsch's Reed warbler | VU | Acrocephalus rehsei | Animalia | Chordata | Passeriformes | Sylviidae | Check Image | |
| Black Noddy | LC | Anous minutus | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Check Image | |
| Brown Noddy | LC | Anous stolidus | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | VU | Ardenna bulleri | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | LC | Ardenna carneipes | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | NT | Ardenna grisea | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | LC | Ardenna pacifica | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | LC | Ardenna tenuirostris | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | LC | Arenaria interpres | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Check Image | |
| Bulwer s Petrel | LC | Bulweria bulwerii | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Streaked Shearwater | LC | Calonectris leucomelas | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Lesser Sand Plover | LC | Charadrius mongolus | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Charadriidae | Check Image | |
| Micronesian Imperial Pigeon | NT | Ducula oceanica | Animalia | Chordata | Columbiformes | Columbidae | Check Image | |
| Blue Heron | LC | Egretta sacra | Animalia | Chordata | Pelecaniformes | Ardeidae | Check Image | |
| Lesser Frigatebird | LC | Fregata ariel | Animalia | Chordata | Suliformes | Fregatidae | Check Image | |
| Great Frigatebird | LC | Fregata minor | Animalia | Chordata | Suliformes | Fregatidae | Check Image | |
| Black bellied Storm Petrel | LC | Fregetta tropica | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Oceanitidae | Check Image | |
| Angel Tern | LC | Gygis alba | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | LC | Hydrobates castro | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Hydrobatidae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | LC | Hydrobates leucorhous | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Hydrobatidae | Check Image | |
| Bar tailed Godwit | LC | Limosa lapponica | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Check Image | |
| Whimbrel | LC | Numenius phaeopus | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | LC | Onychoprion fuscatus | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | LC | Onychoprion lunatus | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Check Image | |
| White tailed Tropicbird | LC | Phaethon lepturus | Animalia | Chordata | Phaethontiformes | Phaethontidae | Check Image | |
| Red tailed Tropicbird | LC | Phaethon rubricauda | Animalia | Chordata | Phaethontiformes | Phaethontidae | Check Image | |
| Black bellied Plover | LC | Pluvialis squatarola | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Charadriidae | Check Image | |
| Blue Noddy | LC | Procelsterna cerulea | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Check Image | |
| Tahiti Petrel | NT | Pseudobulweria rostrata | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Collared Petrel | VU | Pterodroma brevipes | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| White naped Petrel | VU | Pterodroma cervicalis | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Herald Petrel | LC | Pterodroma heraldica | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Korure | NT | Pterodroma inexpectata | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Collared Petrel | VU | Pterodroma leucoptera | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Kermadec Petrel | LC | Pterodroma neglecta | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Black winged Petrel | LC | Pterodroma nigripennis | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Pycroft s Petrel | VU | Pterodroma pycrofti | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Providence Petrel | VU | Pterodroma solandri | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | LC | Puffinus bailloni | Animalia | Chordata | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Check Image | |
| Roseate Tern | LC | Sterna dougallii | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Check Image | |
| Black naped Tern | LC | Sterna sumatrana | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Check Image | |
| Masked (Blue faced) Booby | LC | Sula dactylatra | Animalia | Chordata | Suliformes | Sulidae | Check Image | |
| Brown Booby | LC | Sula leucogaster | Animalia | Chordata | Suliformes | Sulidae | Check Image | |
| Red footed Booby | LC | Sula sula | Animalia | Chordata | Suliformes | Sulidae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | LC | Thalasseus bergii | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | NT | Tringa brevipes | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | LC | Tringa incana | Animalia | Chordata | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Check Image | |
| No common name found | LC | Urodynamis taitensis | Animalia | Chordata | Cuculiformes | Cuculidae | Check Image |
Mammals species list
Common name |
Status | Taxon | Kingdom | Phylum | Order | Family |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blainville's Beaked Whale | DD | Mesoplodon densirostris | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Ziphiidae |
| Blue Whale | EN | Balaenoptera musculus | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Balaenopteridae |
| Bottle nosed Dolphin | LC | Tursiops truncatus | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
| Bridled Dolphin | LC | Stenella attenuata | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
| Bryde's Whale | DD | Balaenoptera edeni | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Balaenopteridae |
| Bunch | LC | Megaptera novaeangliae | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Balaenopteridae |
| Cachelot | VU | Physeter macrocephalus | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Physeteridae |
| Chimo | DD | Orcinus orca | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
| Coalfish Whale | EN | Balaenoptera borealis | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Balaenopteridae |
| Common Minke Whale | LC | Balaenoptera acutorostrata | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Balaenopteridae |
| Cuvier's Beaked Whale | LC | Ziphius cavirostris | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Ziphiidae |
| Dwarf Sperm Whale | DD | Kogia sima | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Physeteridae |
| Euphrosyne Dolphin | LC | Stenella coeruleoalba | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
| False Killer Whale | DD | Pseudorca crassidens | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
| Fraser s Dolphin or Sarawak Dolphin | LC | Lagenodelphis hosei | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
| Ginkgo toothed Beaked Whale | DD | Mesoplodon ginkgodens | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Ziphiidae |
| Grey Dolphin | LC | Grampus griseus | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
| Indo pacific Beaked Whale | DD | Indopacetus pacificus | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Ziphiidae |
| Kiore | LC | Rattus exulans | Animalia | Chordata | Rodentia | Muridae |
| Long beaked Dolphin | DD | Stenella longirostris | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
| Melon headed Whale | LC | Peponocephala electra | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
| Pacific Pilot Whale | DD | Globicephala macrorhynchus | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
| Pygmy Killer Whale | DD | Feresa attenuata | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
| Pygmy Sperm Whale | DD | Kogia breviceps | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Physeteridae |
| Rough toothed Dolphin | LC | Steno bredanensis | Animalia | Chordata | Cetartiodactyla | Delphinidae |
?This content is provided by ECOLEX - the gateway to environmental law, which is a collaboration of IUCN, FAO and UNEP. The results show the country's protected area-related legislation and treaties recorded in the ECOLEX database. Click on "refine query" to modify the search.
General references for the country information and indicators:
Borrini-Feyerabend, G., Bueno, P., Hay-Edie, T., Lang, B., Rastogi, A., Sandwith, T. (2014) A Primer on Governance for Protected and Conserved Areas. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
Butchart, S.H.M., Clarke, M., Smith, R.J., Sykes, R.E., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Harfoot, M., Buchanan, G.M., Angulo, A., Balmford, A., Bertzky, B., Brooks, T.M., Carpenter, K.E., Comeros-Raynal, M.T., Cornell, J., Ficetola, G.F., Fishpool, L.D.C., Fuller, R.A., Geldmann, J., Harwell, H., Hilton-Taylor, C., Hoffmann, M., Joolia, A., Joppa, L., Kingston, N., May, I., Milam, A., Polidoro, B., Ralph, G., Richman, N., Rondinini, C., Segan, D.B., Skolnik, B., Spalding, M.D., Stuart, S.N., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Visconti, P., Watson, J.E.M., Wood, L., Burgess, N.D. (2015) Shortfalls and solutions for meeting national and global conservation area targets. Conservation Letters. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12158
Dubois, G., Schulz, M., Skøien, J., Cottam, A., Temperley, W., Clerici, M., Drakou, E., van’t Klooster, J., Verbeeck, B., Palumbo, I., Derycke, P., Pekel, J.-F., Martínez-López, J., Peedell, S., Mayaux, P. (2013) An Introduction to the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) and the DOPA Explorer (Beta). EUR 26207 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Dubois, G., Bastin, L., Martínez-López, J., Cottam, A., Temperley, W., Bertzky, B., Graziano, M. (2015) The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) Explorer 1.0. EUR 27162 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Dudley, N. (editor) (2008) Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
Hartley, A., Nelson, A., Mayaux, P., Grégoire, J.-M. (2007) The Assessment of African Protected Areas. EUR 22780 EN, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg.
IUCN and UNEP-WCMC (2013) The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) On-line, January 2013. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net
IUCN and UNEP-WCMC (2014) The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) On-line, August 2014. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net
IUCN and UNEP-WCMC (2015) The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) On-line, July 2015. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net
Juffe-Bignoli, D., Burgess, N.D., Bingham, H., Belle, E.M.S., de Lima, M.G., Deguignet, M., Bertzky, B., Milam, A.N., Martinez-Lopez, J., Lewis, E., Eassom, A., Wicander, S., Geldmann, J., van Soesbergen, A., Arnell, A.P., O’Connor, B., Park, S., Shi, Y.N., Danks, F.S., MacSharry, B., Kingston, N. (2014) Protected Planet Report 2014. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK.
Le Saout, S., Hoffmann, M., Shi, Y., Hughes, A., Bernard, C., Brooks, T.M., Bertzky, B., Butchart, S.H.M., Stuart, S.N., Badman, T., Rodrigues, A.S.L. (2013) Protected areas and effective biodiversity conservation. Science 342: 803–805.
Olson, D.M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E.D., Burgess, N.D., Powell, G.V.N., Underwood, E.C., d’Amico, J.A., Itoua, I., Strand, H.E., Morrison, J.C., Loucks, C.J., Allnutt, T.F., Ricketts, T.H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J.F., Wettengel, W.W., Hedao, P., Kassem, K.R. (2001) Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: a new map of life on Earth. BioScience 51: 933–938.
Rodrigues, A.S.L., Brooks, T.M., Butchart, S.H.M., Chanson, J., Cox, N., Hoffmann, M., Stuart, S.N. (2014) Spatially explicit trends in the global conservation status of vertebrates. PLoS ONE 9(11): e113934. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113934
Spalding, M.D., Fox, H.E., Allen, G.R., Davidson, N., Ferdaña, Z.A., Finlayson, M., Halpern, B.S., Jorge, M.A., Lombana, A., Lourie, S.A., Martin, K.D., McManus, E., Molnar, J., Recchia, C.A., Robertson, J. (2007) Marine ecoregions of the world: a bioregionalization of coast and shelf areas. BioScience 57: 573–583.
UNEP-WCMC (2015) World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) User Manual 1.0. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK.