Protected Areas (Côte d'Ivoire)

Category: Transition risks · Sensitive areas · Protected areas Coverage: Country (Côte d'Ivoire) Format: Boundary polygons Used in risk analysis: No (contextual layer; not used in materiality scoring)

What it shows

This layer maps the network of legally protected areas across Côte d'Ivoire. It includes the country's national parks (among them Taï, Comoé, Mont Péko, Mont Sangbé, Marahoué, Azagny, Banco and Îles Ehotilé), wildlife reserves, classified forests (forêts classées) and nature reserves. Protected areas mark places where development is restricted and where nature-related regulatory, reputational and access risk is concentrated, making them a key screening input for sites and supply chains in the country.

How it is built

The boundaries are drawn from OpenStreetMap, a collaborative open geographic database. Areas are selected from the relevant designation categories used in OpenStreetMap to tag protected land, national parks and nature reserves, then assembled into a single set of national-level polygons. Each polygon represents the mapped extent of a designated site. No score is computed; the layer is a presence-or-absence boundary set rather than a graded index.

How to read it

This is a boundary layer, so the relevant question is intersection: a site that falls inside, or close to, one of these polygons is flagged as overlapping a protected area. Overlap indicates potential exposure to conservation restrictions, permitting requirements and heightened stakeholder scrutiny. Areas outside the polygons carry no protected-area flag from this dataset.

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors, made available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Boundaries derived from the protected-area, national-park and nature-reserve designations recorded in the database.

Comparison with the WWF Risk Filter Suite

This layer corresponds to WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter indicator S14_1 Protected/Conserved Areas. The WWF Risk Filter Suite uses the global World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA, UNEP-WCMC, accessed via IBAT). Darwin instead assembles a national dataset for Côte d'Ivoire, which can extend or localise coverage relative to the global WDPA but is sourced from collaborative open mapping rather than the official protected-area register.

Generated from darwin/layers/layer-protected-areas-cote-d-ivoire.toml and risk_indicator_pairs.toml (develop).