Protected areas of the Caribbean

Protected areas of the Caribbean are significant in a region of particular ecological vulnerability, including the impact of climate change and the impact of tourism.[1]

The University of the West Indies' "Caribbean Protected Areas Gateway"[2] supports informational resources for the 16 Caribbean member states of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States. It forms the regional component of the ACP's Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management program,[3] building on the World Database on Protected Areas.

The United Nations Environment Programme supports the Greater Caribbean through its Regional Seas initiative,[4] but studies have pointed to the shortage of marine protected areas and marine reserves in the region as particularly detrimental to shark conservation,[5] an issue also addressed globally though the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks. Comparative county-by-county studies on MPA enforcement have also been made by the Environmental Law Institute.[6]

## National trusts in the Caribbean

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See National trust

* Bahamas National Trust
* Barbados National Trust
* Bermuda National Trust
* Belize: List of protected areas of Belize

* National Trust for the Cayman Islands

* Dominica: List of national parks of Dominica
* Dominican Republic: Category:Protected areas of the Dominican Republic

* Grenada National Trust
* National Trust of Guyana

* Haiti National Trust
* Haiti: List of protected areas of Haiti

* Montserrat National Trust

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Puerto Rico

* Saint Lucia National Trust

* National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago

## References

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1. ^ "Parks Caribbean". parkscaribbean.net. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
2. ^ "CPAG – Caribbean Protected Areas Gateway". Retrieved 2021-06-15.
3. ^ "BIOPAMA". IUCN. 2016-02-08. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
4. ^ "Protected areas in the wider Caribbean Region". United Nations Environment Programme.
5. ^ Gallagher, Austin J.; Amon, Diva J.; Bervoets, Tadzio; Shipley, Oliver N.; Hammerschlag, Neil; Sims, David W. (2020-02-14). "The Caribbean needs big marine protected areas". Science. 367 (6479): 749. doi:10.1126/science.abb0650. hdl:10141/622838. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 32054752. S2CID 211110450.
6. ^ "Caribbean MPA Enforcement". ELI Ocean Program: MPAs. Retrieved 2021-06-15.

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Protected areas of the Americas

Sovereign
states|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Argentina
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Canada
* Chile
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* El Salvador
* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Guyana
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Suriname
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Dependencies
and territories|

* Anguilla
* Aruba
* Bermuda
* Bonaire
* British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Curaçao
* Falkland Islands
* French Guiana
* Greenland
* Guadeloupe
* Martinique
* Montserrat
* Puerto Rico
* Saba
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Martin
* Saint Pierre and Miquelon
* Sint Eustatius
* Sint Maarten
* South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* U.S. Virgin Islands

* North America
* Central America
* Caribbean
*   *   *   * South America

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Protected areas of the Caribbean

* British West Indies
* Danish West Indies
* Dutch Caribbean
* Caribbean Netherlands
* Netherlands Antilles
* French West Indies
* West Indies Federation

West
Indies|

| Antilles|

| Greater
Antilles|

* Cayman Islands
* Cuba
* Jamaica
* Navassa Island
* Puerto Rico

| Hispaniola|

* Dominican Republic
* Haiti

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Lesser
Antilles|

| Leeward
Islands|

* Anguilla
* Antigua and Barbuda
* Guadeloupe
* La Désirade
* Les Saintes
* Marie-Galante
* Montserrat
* Saba^*
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Sint Eustatius^*

| Saint Martin^|

* Collectivity of Saint Martin
* Sint Maarten

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Virgin Islands|

* British Virgin Islands
* U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean|

| Leeward
Antilles|

* Insular Venezuela
* Federal Dependencies
* Nueva Esparta

| ABC islands|

* Aruba
* Bonaire*
* Curaçao

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Windward
Islands|

* Dominica
* Grenada
* Carriacou and Petite Martinique
* Martinique
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

* Barbados†
* Trinidad and Tobago†

Lucayan
Archipelago|

* Bahamas
* Turks and Caicos Islands

Caribbean
Sea|

* Aves Island
* San Andrés and Providencia
* Bajo Nuevo Bank~
* Serranilla Bank~

Caribbean
continental
zone|

* Quintana Roo
* Cozumel

| Central America|

* Belize
* Honduras
* Bay Islands
* Izabal
* Limón
* Corn Islands
* North Caribbean Coast
* South Caribbean Coast
* Panama

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South America|

* Colombian Caribbean
* Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:|

* Bermuda#
* Costa Rica
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Nicaragua

| Yucatán Peninsula|

* Campeche
* Petén
* Yucatán

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The Guianas|

* Amapá
* French Guiana
* Venezuelan Guayana
* Guyana
* Guayana Esequibaǂ
* Tigri Areaǂ
* Suriname

N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

^These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which *the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.
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