Talk:List of largest protected areas

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Hello! I think the list isn´t completely. Please look to protectedplanet.net and search t.ex. Changtang and other areas in the himalaya-mountains. And the following text is a good database from UNEP: "The Ten Largest Protected Areas Greenland's 97.2 million hectare National Park is the world's biggest followed by the 64 million hectare Ar-Rub'al-Khali wildlife management area in Saudi Arabia. The third biggest is the 34.5 million hectare Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia followed by the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands' coral reef ecosystem reserve of the United States at over 34 million hectares. The fifth largest is the more than 32 million hectare Amazonia forest reserve in Colombia and the sixth, the Qiang Tang nature reserve in China, almost 25 million hectares. The seventh biggest is the Cape Churchill wildlife management area in northern Canada covering just under 14 million hectares followed by the Northern Wildlife Management Zone in Saudi Arabia, 10 million hectares. This is followed by the Alto Orinoco-Casiquiare biosphere reserve in Venezuela and Bolivia, over eight million hectares and the Valo do Javari indigenous area in Brazil, again at just over eight million hectares." Ökologix (German Wikipedia)
 * Thank you for the additional information. Protected Planet with the amount of data compiled as of this date can certainly serve as the foremost resource for this Wikipedia article. It appears I originally created this "List of largest" article prior to the creation of that website, so no resource like this existed, and in its infancy it appears to have evaded the attention of other editors as well. It will prove to be a good parallel reference for this article. The Wikipedia article will serve as a more concise and numerical database while Protected Planet serves as the ultimate visual reference. However, the UNEP excerpt/German Wikipedia article you have quoted is obviously outdated, even by UNEP's own information (UNEP created Protected Planet). The Greenland park lost it's largest protected area title almost four years ago. It is the largest protected terrestrial area, but even then they include the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in those same rankings, so they are clearly considering terrestrial and aquatic areas. It is best to disregard that text and continue with the modern information.

Needs to be added
A new parc named Tursujuq has just been created in Québec covering 26 910 km2

Enalung (talk) 05:48, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

This list has the Alpine national park and Kosciuszko as seperate parks, yet the two parks abut each other over internal state lines. If trans national parks can be considered as one then the two parks should be listed under one listing, and the whole Australian Alps reserve should be in the listing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Alps_National_Parks_and_Reserves — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.189.171.51 (talk) 12:36, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * I fail to see how that Talk page is relevant to this whatsoever. It seems to be a compiling error. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.130.31.53 (talk) 11:34, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Criteria for "Largest"
This doesn't seem to be a problem yet, as the list isn't hundreds of parks long. However, I think it's important to lay out what criteria qualify a park to be placed on this list. Is this simply a "Top 100" type of list, or should every protected area greater than 3,000 sq km, or 1,000 sq km be included? As it stands, there doesn't seem to be any obvious rules for the list (unless I missed something). Coinmanj (talk) 00:05, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * There are none, which is why I have rewritten the list using the October 2017 edition of the WDPA which is the only globally authoritative reference for this information. The list is now much shorter and I do not plan on expanding it because many of the larger areas (including 19 of the top 20) are marine protected areas that few people are likely to take an interest in or have even heard of. I may add a separate list of non-marine protected areas in the future which might be closer to what people expect to find in this article. Cobblet (talk) 03:29, 15 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Needs a column for land and sea designation. I will add it if there is consensus TheKevlar 14:40, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

At these measurements correct?
Take the park in the second position, located I the south of French Guyana. It's almost the same size as number 1, but clearly 100x smaller than Mexiko. 84.226.138.12 (talk) 11:05, 16 April 2022 (UTC)