Acknowledgements
The WDPA is the result of a worldwide collaborative effort made possible by the active participation of official governmental entities, international environmental organizations, local NGOs, its subsidiaries, WDPA consortium partners and many other organizations and individuals whose data contributions and expert opinion made possible the update of the WDPA.
Credit and recognition for the actual protected areas data compilation and integration in the WDPA are given to UNEP-WCMC, the organization that has been working with information on protected areas since 1981.
Special acknowledgments are given to the following WDPA contributors and participants as well as to all of those individuals and their organizations who, although may not be listed here, provided their continuing support for the WDPA 2003 update.
American Museum of Natural History
- Tom Moritz, Boeschenstein Director of Library Services and Co-Chair Information Management Task Force, World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- Ned Horning, Manager, Remote Sensing/GIS Program
BirdLife International
- Martin Sneary, Head of Information Management
- Mark Balman, Database/Support Analyst
Centro Nacional de Áreas Protegidas de Cuba
- José Luis Gerhartz Muro
Conservation Biology Institute
- James R. Strittholt, Ph.D., Executive Director
Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano C.B.M.
- Lorenzo Cardenal, Coordinador Regional PRC-CBM
- Jorge Mejia Peralta
Conservation International
- Silvio Olivieri, Vice-President for Conservation Knowledge, and Co-Chair Information Management Task Force, World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- Aaron Bruner, Program Manager, Conservation Economics
- Alejandra Ochoa, Coordinadora de Proyectos CI-Venezuela
- Carlos Rodriguez, CI Mesoamerica
- Carlos Galindo, CI CABS
- Carola Borja, Protected Areas Information Coordinator, CABS
- Cecilia Macera, CI-Peru
- Eddy Mendoza, GIS, CI-Bolivia
- Eileen Gutierrez, Manager, Africa Region, Ecotourism Dept.
- Fabio Arjona, Director, CI-Colombia
- François Martel, Technical Director, CI-Melanesia
- Freddy Miranda, CI-Bolivia
- James Atherton, Profile Coordinator, SPREP and CI-Melanesia
- Joanna Axford, University of Queensland, Australia, and CI-Melanesia
- Jonathon D. Colman, Web Communications and Content Manager, CABS
- Lisa Stewart, GIS Laboratory
- Luis Suarez, Director CI-Ecuador
- Matt Foster, Conservation Synthesis, CABS
- Marc Denil, Director, GIS Laboratory, CABS
- Marion Antonette Abuel, Research Associate, Protected Areas Database Project CI-Philippines
- Miroslav Honzak, Regional Programs Division
- Olivier Langrand, Senior V. P. for Africa
- Penny Langhammer, Senior Manager for Africa-Eurasia, Conservation Synthesis
- Ricardo Machado, Diretor de Planejamento para Conservação, CI-Brasil
- Rob Waller, GIS Specialist, CABS
- Stuart Gottlieb, GIS Associate, Melanesia Program
- Víctor H. Vásquez V., Subdirector Región Andina CI-Colombia
Fauna & Flora International
- Chris Magin, Senior Protected Areas Specialist
Ministerie Volksgezondheid en Sociale Ontwikkeling-Nederlandse Antillen
- Eric C. Newton, Afdeling Milieu en Natuur
The Hawk and Owl Trust
- Rob Davies, Director of Development
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
- Jean-Jacques de Granville, Curator of the Herbarium, Cayenne, Guyane Française
Institute of Zoology, CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- XIE Yan, Deputy Director, Office of CITES SA, China
- WANG, Sung, Researcher
- DU, Youmei
- DU, Youcai
- LI, Shengbiao
IUCN-The World Conservation Union
- David Sheppard, Head, IUCN Programme on Protected Areas
- Pedro Rosabal, Senior Programme Officer, Programme on Protected Areas/WCPA
- Vladimir Bazan, Information and Communication Technologies
IUCN-World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- Kenton Miller, Chair
- Mohamed Bakarr, Deputy Chair
Saba National Marine Park
- David Kooistra, Manager Marine Biologist
The Nature Conservancy
- Jeffrey Parrish, Director of Conservation Planning, Global Priorities Group
- Roger Sayre
- Leonardo Sotomayor, GIS Specialist
International Conservation Science
- Peking University, China: Giant Panda Conservation Research Center
- Wang Hao, Lecturer
UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- Stuart Chape, Head-World Heritage, Ramsar and Protected Areas Programme
- Phillip Fox, Head of Biodiversity Information Services
- Simon Blyth, Technical Officer GIS
- Lucy Fish, GIS Assistant
- Karen Timmins
- Melanie Mason
- Ian May
Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Instituto De Geografía "Romualdo Ardissone"
- Programa de Investigación y Desarrollo en Reservas de la Biosfera-ProMAB
- Claudio Daniele, ProMAB Director
- Srta. Andrea Frassetto
- Lic. Mara Ruiz
- Lic. Christian Scaramella
- Srta. Mariana Campos
- Sr. Darío San Cristóbal
- Srta. Jesica Viand
- Sr. Pablo Repetti
Wildlife Conservation Society
- Eric Sanderson, Associate Director, Landscape Ecology and Geographic Analysis Program
- Lee White, Conservation Scientist
- Madhu Rao
- Matthew Hatchwell
World Resources Institute
- Bret Bergst, Coordinator/Associate I, Ecosystems, Parks and People Program
- Susan Minnemeyer, GIS Lab Manager
- Jon Maidens
- Robin White, Senior Associate, Information Program
World Wildlife Fund
- Neil Burgess, WWF-US
- Jennifer D'Amico, WWF-US
- Andre Kamdem-Toham, WWF-CARPO
- Echay Kumar Darjee, WWF-Bhutan
- Colby Loucks, WWF-US
- Rufin Mikala, WWF-CARPO
- John Morrison, WWF-US
- Irina Onufrenya, WWF-Russia
- Batbold D. Otgoid, WWF Mongolia
- Pedro Regato, WWF Mediterranean Program Office
- Gogi Sanadiradze, WWF-Georgia
- Jan Schipper, WWF-US
- Holly Strand, WWF-US
- Gokarna Thapa, WWF-Nepal
- Wesley Wettengel, WWF-US