The Web Portal of the Protected Areas Thematic Network (PATN) - IABIN was created to serve as joint element between the participants of the Thematic Network, institutions, environmental agencies, data providers, stakeholders and general public interested in the Protected Areas.

The PATN Web Portal was also developed to make available high quality and updated information on Protected Areas in Americas, offering an integrated search tool, accessing official protected area data from each Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network participant country.

A number of functionalities are available at the Web Portal, such as calendar of events, documents and files download, experts and contacts database, discussion forum, and internet links related to protected areas in Americas. All this functionalities are freely available to the visitors but to have a fully access the Web Portal the visitors are invited to register.

We expect that the users actively contribute and participate at the Web Portal, submitting news, events, documents and participating at the discussion forum.

Comments and suggestions are welcome at the “contact us ”!