Endau Rompin (Johor) National Park

Where it ranks

The Canopy Global 1000 ranks the world’s land protected areas by conservation value: how irreplaceable the species they hold are, how connected they are to other protected land, and how intact they are, weighted by size. Plant data is being added to the ranking, so both versions are shown side by side. Neither is the final word.

Without plants, Endau Rompin (Johor) National Park ranks 202 of 1,000. With plants it ranks 262. It stays in the top 300 either way, which is why it is here.

Published management assessments

Management-effectiveness ratings published outside Canopy, each on its publisher’s own scale. They are not PACE scores, some are self-assessments, and different methods and years are never converted into one another or ranked together.

GEF METT reported as a percentage in a project evaluation, 2018: 68.6 percent, on a 0 to 100 scale.

Assessor: Johor National Parks Corporation (JNPC) self-assessment with project support, reported in the independent terminal evaluation. Table 11 shows the same 2018 score rounded to 69%; the 2010 baseline is printed as 58 in one place and 56.8% in another.

Scale: METT score expressed as a percentage, as published in a GEF project evaluation. Project-run assessment; not comparable across projects without checking the METT version. Source: UNDP-GEF Malaysia PA effectiveness and financing project terminal evaluation; Results framework Indicator 2 (PDF p. 98), Endau Rompin, 2018. Retrieved 2026-10-05. Endau Rompin managed by the Johor National Parks Corporation is the Johor national park in the cohort.

Sources checked for this area:

UNDP Evaluation Resource Centre / GEF: Midterm Review: Improving Connectivity in the Central Forest Spine Landscape (IC-CFS), GEF 4732 / UNDP PIMS 4594. Landscape-level review only; no park-level METT score.

UNESCO World Heritage Centre: UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Malaysia (State Party page). Not an inscribed World Heritage property or component; no IUCN World Heritage Outlook assessment exists.

UNDP Evaluation Resource Centre / GEF: Terminal Evaluation: Enhancing Effectiveness and Financial Sustainability of Protected Areas in Malaysia, UNDP PIMS 3967 / GEF 3906, 2020. Row for Endau Rompin (Johor National Parks Corporation) read directly; counted.

Retrieved 2026-10-05. A park with no rating here may still have one that was not found or could not be cited from a primary document.

Irrecoverable carbon

2.39 million tonnes of carbon inside the boundary is irrecoverable: if it were lost, it could not be recovered by 2050.

Forest loss, 2001 to 2024

486 km² of the area was forest in 2000, 100% of it. 12.6 km² of that forest was lost between 2001 and 2024, 2.6% of the 2000 cover.

Forest means at least 30% tree canopy in 2000. Loss counts any clearing, including fire and natural disturbance, not only deforestation.

Not here yet

Canopy’s PACE management score, its country readiness score (C-RISK) and its weekly satellite feeds cover African protected areas today. They have not been published for this area.

Provenance

Sources

UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2026), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) [June 2026], Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.

Hansen, M. C. et al. (2013), High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change, Science 342: 850-853. Data: Global Forest Change 2000 to 2024, v1.12, University of Maryland, CC BY 4.0.

Noon, M. L. et al. (2022), Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems, Nature Sustainability 5: 37-46, doi:10.1038/s41893-021-00803-6.

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