Editing Protected area (section)

=== United States ===
{{As of|2008|01|31}}, according to the [[United Nations Environment Programme]], the United States had a total of 6770 terrestrial nationally designated (federal) protected areas. These protected areas cover {{convert|2607131|km2|mi2|abbr=on}}, or 27.08 percent of the land area of the United States.<ref name="wdpa">{{cite web|title=Summary of protection by Country and Territory on the 31st January 2008|url=http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/mdgs/WDPAPAstats_Jan08_download.xls|archive-url=https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20090713162229/http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/mdgs/WDPAPAstats_Jan08_download.xls|url-status= dead|archive-date= 13 July 2009|format=XLS|work=UNEP|publisher=World Database on Protected Areas|date=31 January 2008|access-date=13 April 2009}}</ref> This is also one-tenth of the protected land area of the world. 

According to a report from the [[Center for American Progress]], the administration of Joe Biden reached a record in conservation. In 3 years of ruling it conserved or in the process of conserving more than 24 millions acres of public land and in 2023 alone more than 12.5 million acres of public land became protected area. It is doing it together with the indigenous people as 200 agreements of co-stewardship with them were signed in 2023 alone. The goal of Biden is to protect 30% of the terrestrial and marine territory of the United States by the year 2030.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hananel |first1=Sam |title=The Biden Administration Has Reached Conservation Records in 2023 |url=https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-biden-administration-has-reached-conservation-records-in-2023/ |website=Center for American progress |date=20 December 2023 |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref>