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pywdpa Python package

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Overview

The pywdpa Python package is an interface to the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) hosted on the Protected Planet website at https://www.protectedplanet.net. The pywdpa package provides functions to download shapefiles of protected areas (PA) for any countries with an iso3 code using the Protected Planet API at https://api.protectedplanet.net. The pywdpa package translates some functions of the R package worldpa (https://github.com/FRBCesab/worldpa) in the Python language.

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Terms and conditions

You must ensure that the following citation is always clearly reproduced in any publication or analysis involving the Protected Planet Materials in any derived form or format:

UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (YEAR) Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net (dataset downloaded the YEAR/MONTH).

For further details on terms and conditions of the WDPA usage, please visit the page: https://www.protectedplanet.net/c/terms-and-conditions.

Prerequisites

This package uses the Protected Planet API to access data on world protected areas. You must first have obtained a Personal API Token by filling in the form available at https://api.protectedplanet.net/request. Then you need to set an environment variable (we recommend using the name WDPA_KEY) using either the command os.environ["WDPA_KEY"]="your_token" or python-dotenv.

Installation

The easiest way to install the pywdpa Python package is via pip:

$ # For version on PyPI
$ python -m pip install pywdpa

or

$ # For development version on GitHub
$ python -m pip install https://github.com/ghislainv/pywdpa/archive/master.zip

but you can also install pywdpa executing the setup.py file:

$ git clone https://github.com/ghislainv/pywdpa
$ cd pywdpa
$ python setup.py install

Contributing

The pywdpa Python package is Open Source and released under the GNU GPL version 3 license. Anybody who is interested can contribute to the package development following our Community guidelines. Every contributor must agree to follow the project’s Code of conduct.