---
id: "wdpa_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["environment", "geo"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/wdpa_id"
---

# World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) site ID (`wdpa_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Number that UNEP-WCMC gives to a protected area or other effective area-based conservation measure (OECM) when it first enters the World Database on Protected Areas, now called the World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA). It identifies one designation, so a national park that is also a World Heritage site has two ids, and an id is not reused after its site is removed. The field was WDPAID until November 2025 and is now SITE_ID; zones of one site share it and are told apart by the parcel id SITE_PID (the site id, an underscore and a number, formerly a letter). A bare number: recognize it only with column context.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste) (environment), Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[1-9]\d*$
```

## Examples

- `103142` — Harz National Park, Germany; Wikidata example, Protected Planet
- `18608` — Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park, Canada; Wikidata example, Protected Planet
- `555624810` — Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area; WDPCA user manual 2.0
- `555624810_1` (invalid example) — Parcel id (SITE_PID) of one zone, not the site id

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P809`

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор территории во Всемирной базе данных охраняемых территорий (WDPA): Номер, который UNEP-WCMC присваивает охраняемой территории или OECM при включении во Всемирную базу данных охраняемых территорий (теперь WDPCA). Отдельный номер получает каждое обозначение территории; с ноября 2025 года поле называется SITE_ID вместо WDPAID.

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/resources/wdpa-manual>
- doc: <https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/data/wdpca>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Database_on_Protected_Areas>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P809>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/wdpa_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/environment/wdpa_id.yaml>