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Who lives in the protected areas near you?

Students find their province on the map, list nearby protected areas and discuss study 14's finding that legal endangered taxa sit inside protected areas only at about chance level. Factual questions come with a teacher's key.

How to run it

1) Show the protected-area map page or print this sheet. 2) Each group takes one province and fills in parts A and B. 3) Part C (discussion) is shared with the class. The key prints only with 'Print with key'. Nothing about students is stored.

Open the protected-area map

Who lives in the protected areas near you?

Name: ________________ Group: ________ Date: ____________

Map: protected share of each 10-km cell
GangwonSeoulGyeonggiIncheonNorth ChungcheongSejongSouth ChungcheongDaejeonNorth GyeongsangDaeguJeonbukUlsanSouth GyeongsangGwangjuBusanSouth JeollaJejuGangwonSeoulGyeonggiIncheonChungbukSejongChungnamDaejeonGyeongbukDaeguJeonbukUlsanGyeongnamGwangjuBusanJeonnamJeju
  • none
  • 0%–10%
  • 10%–25%
  • 25%–50%
  • 50% or more

A. Find your province

  1. Find the province of your school on the map and write it down.

  2. What share of your province's land is protected? Is it higher or lower than Korea as a whole (18.0%)?

  3. Name the national parks in your province (or write 'none').

  4. Apart from national parks, name the two most common kinds of protected area in your province and how many there are.

  5. How many legal endangered taxa were recorded in your province, and how many have at least one record inside a protected area?

  6. Compare 'records inside' with 'land protected' for your province. Which is larger?

B. What study 14 found

  1. What share of Korea's land is protected, and how much of it is national park?

  2. For the 152 legal taxa that could be judged, what share of the typical taxon's cells is protected? What would a taxon placed at random have?

  3. How many of the 152 taxa fall short of the 30% target (Kunming-Montreal Target 3)?

  4. Of the 17 taxa below 17% under every reading, which group is most common, and how many?

  5. Counting national parks only, what share of the typical taxon's records lay inside them?

C. Think together

  1. Study 14 says protected areas cover these taxa at 'about chance level'. What does that mean? Use two numbers from part B.

  2. Why are river fishes so often left outside protected areas?

  3. If protected area grew to 30% of the land, would each endangered taxon be 30% protected? Give your view and reasons.

  4. If your province's 'records inside' share is high, does that alone show endangered taxa are well protected?

Source: study 14 (Korea's protected areas cover its legal endangered taxa at about chance level); protected areas WDPA September 2026; worldwide sightings (GBIF) records fetched 2026-09-27. Province values were recomputed by this site from study 14's data.

Teacher's key

Part C has no single answer; its key gives the paper's own evidence, as a guide for the discussion.

  • A1 Depends on the province: see the table below.
  • A2 Depends on the province: see the table below.
  • A3 Depends on the province: see the table below.
  • A4 Depends on the province: see the table below.
  • A5 Depends on the province: see the table below.
  • A6 Depends on the province: see the table below.
  • B1 Protected areas 18.0%; national parks 4.1%
  • B2 Typical taxon 18.5%; random placement 18.4% (almost the same)
  • B3 121
  • B4 Freshwater fishes, 8
  • B5 0.3%
  • C1 The typical taxon's protected share (18.5%) is almost the random value (18.4%): protected areas neither concentrate on nor avoid where these taxa live.
  • C2 The paper notes that a river channel lies inside a protected area only where the area happens to include it; these records were rarely generalised, so the result is not a coordinate artefact.
  • C3 The paper argues that adding area without targeting these taxa would leave most below 30%; adding other effective area-based measures (OECMs) moved the count below 17% only from 63 to 62.
  • C4 Records cluster where people go to look (parks, wetlands), so they are not full ranges; and a designation is not evidence of management for these taxa.

Values by province (key to part A)

ProvinceLand protectedProtected areasMain kindsNational parksListed taxa recordedTaxa with a record insideRecords inside
Gangwon26.0%214Water Source Protection Area 55 · Natural Monument 53 · Wildlife Protection Area 32 · Scenic Site 28 · other 46Chiaksan, Odaesan, Seoraksan, Sobaeksan, Taebaeksan1318634.0%9,372 of 27,567
Seoul11.1%42Ecosystem and Landscape Conservation Area 13 · Natural Monument 12 · Wildlife Protection Area 11 · Scenic Site 3 · other 3Bukhansan74347.3%224 of 3,077
Gyeonggi26.2%165Wildlife Protection Area 51 · Natural Monument 32 · Special Island 28 · Water Source Protection Area 15 · other 39Bukhansan1228420.4%3,822 of 18,721
Incheon5.4%12Natural Monument 3 · Special Island 2 · Wildlife Protection Area 2 · Wetland Protected Area - Tidal Flat 2 · other 3none47121.0%26 of 2,705
North Chungcheong24.8%81Natural Monument 25 · Wildlife Protection Area 14 · Water Source Protection Area 13 · Scenic Site 12 · other 17Sobaeksan, Songnisan, Woraksan1014721.4%571 of 2,669
Sejong2.2%4Scenic Site 1 · Wildlife Protection Area 1 · Catchment Reserve Protection Area 1 · Natural Monument 1none4850.8%7 of 938
South Chungcheong6.0%124Wildlife Protection Area 44 · Special Island 35 · Natural Monument 15 · Water Source Protection Area 6 · other 24Gyeryongsan, Taeanhaean99486.8%554 of 8,199
Daejeon8.0%11Wildlife Protection Area 4 · Wetland Protected Area 2 · Water Source Protection Area 2 · Urban Natural Park Areas 1 · other 2none451823.6%124 of 526
North Gyeongsang11.0%257Water Source Protection Area 75 · Natural Monument 68 · Wildlife Protection Area 59 · Scenic Site 18 · other 37Gayasan, Gyeongju, Juwangsan, Palgongsan, Sobaeksan, Songnisan, Woraksan955114.7%921 of 6,253
Daegu12.9%12Wildlife Protection Area 4 · Water Source Protection Area 3 · Wetland Protected Area 1 · Natural Monument 1 · other 3Palgongsan281421.6%29 of 134
Jeonbuk17.3%150Wildlife Protection Area 50 · Natural Monument 33 · Special Island 15 · Scenic Site 14 · other 38Byeonsanbando, Deogyusan, Jirisan, Naejangsan1066614.1%792 of 5,601
Ulsan13.8%23Wildlife Protection Area 7 · Water Source Protection Area 3 · Natural Monument 2 · Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site) 1 · other 10none341611.2%54 of 482
South Gyeongsang14.2%292Wildlife Protection Area 80 · Special Island 60 · Natural Monument 47 · Water Source Protection Area 40 · other 65Gayasan, Geumjeongsan, Hallyeohaesang, Jirisan1007026.9%2,629 of 9,757
Gwangju6.9%4Wildlife Protection Area 2 · National Park 1 · Scenic Site 1Mudeungsan1144.9%5 of 102
Busan19.5%14Natural Monument 5 · Scenic Site 2 · Special Island 2 · Marine Protected Area 2 · other 3Geumjeongsan402430.3%129 of 425
South Jeolla19.4%395Special Island 117 · Water Source Protection Area 70 · Natural Monument 63 · Wildlife Protection Area 53 · other 92Dadohaehaesang, Hallyeohaesang, Jirisan, Mudeungsan, Naejangsan, Wolchulsan1036911.7%3,855 of 33,040
Jeju12.6%86Natural Monument 40 · Water Source Protection Area 10 · Scenic Site 9 · Nature Reserve 5 · other 22Hallasan995016.8%721 of 4,294
Sea, outside province linesProtected areas at sea are counted in the nearest province.14010827.3%14,438 of 52,835

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