Explore

Here we provide you with a set of tools in which to explore the world's protected areas. You can explore our park of the month, our priority parks or any nationally designated protected area using the menu links below 'Explore'.

Explore using Google maps including beautiful photographs of the parks from the Panoramio and Flickr archives and information on the parks held by the World Database on Protected Areas and by Wikipedia.

Take a tour of the parks in 3-D using the Google Earth Browser plugin. Fly or walk around the parks using the Google Earth Browser plugin. Sit back and enjoy a slideshow of some of the landscapes, plants and animals that you can find in the parks using our 'Virtual tours'.

Park of the month

Priority parks

All parks

Virtual tours