Eritrea
Eritrea has four protected areas covering 5,936 km2 of land and does not have any marine protected areas (UNEP-WCMC & IUCN (2019f). Although there are no officially gazetted protected areas in the country, there are some areas set aside for protection through government directives. The de facto protected areas have no management or business plans. A draft Protected Area Proclamation was prepared and proposed protected areas were identified in 2018.
Protected and conserved areas designated as global sites of importance |
|
Global designation |
Number of sites |
UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserves |
0 |
UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Natural or Mixed) |
0 |
Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar sites) |
0 |
Source ((Ramsar, 2019; UNESCO, 2019a, 2019b)
Priority areas for conservation |
|
Designation |
Number of sites |
Alliance for Zero Extinction sites |
14 |
Important Bird & Biodiversity Areas |
9 |
Key Biodiversity Areas |
0 |
(AZE Secretariat, 2019; BirdLife International, 2019c, 2019a)