Traditional leaders, Island Councils, communities and government have all contributed to the establishment and management of PAs. Most Cook Islands PAs are not covered by legislation, and the few that are legislated vary in their levels of protection. Only three of the 14 terrestrial PAs are covered by formal government-based legislations and regulations, which include the Suwarrow National Park Declaration, Takutea Island Regulations and Takuvaine Water Catchment Regulations.
There are 14 terrestrial PAs, which total at least 1407.2 hectares (five PAs are uncalculated), or about six per cent of the Cook Islands’ total 240 km2 land mass. Terrestrial PA are concentrated in a few locations. Three of the 15 islands in Cook Islands are wildlife reserves (Suwarrow, Takutea and Manuae), almost 40% of the terrestrial PAs are represented by four motu on Pukapuka, and three of Rarotonga’s four PAs make up 36% of total terrestrial PAs.
These interactive graphs were derived from the raw data of the Waste Audit conducted under the PacWaste Project for Cook Islands
Dataset that provides a direct link to Cook Island's data hosted on the GBIF website / records.
direct internet link to data related to bird species of the Cook Islands on the BirdLife International portal
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direct link to Cook Island's data on the GBIF website
direct link to all species occurrences in Cook Islands on the GBIF records
Bird data recorded on the BirdLife International Portal