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, Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary ranks 51 of 1,000. With plants it ranks 142. It stays in the top 300 either way, which is why it is here.
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, 2019: 49 percent, on a 0 to 100 scale.
Assessor: Implementing partner (WCS) and Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division; individual assessors not named. Latest of three published scores (2013, 2018, 2019).
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 Myanmar protected-area project terminal evaluation; Indicator 11 table, column 2019. Retrieved 2026-10-05. Exact sanctuary name; one of the four project sites.
Sources checked for this area:
UNDP Evaluation Resource Centre / GEF: Terminal Evaluation Report: Strengthening Sustainability of Protected Area Management in Myanmar, UNDP PIMS 5162 / GEF 5159, March 2020. Indicator 11 table read directly.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre: UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Myanmar (State Party page). Not an inscribed World Heritage property or component; no IUCN World Heritage Outlook assessment exists.
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.
8.60 million tonnes of carbon inside the boundary is irrecoverable: if it were lost, it could not be recovered by 2050.
No forest-loss figure is published for this area: no forest record: CG1K measures Hansen loss only in forest biomes.
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.
| WDPA id | 312906 |
|---|---|
| Canopy Global 1000 list | October 2026 edition |
| Boundary and area source | WDPA-Jun2026 |
| Forest source | Hansen Global Forest Change v1.12 |
| Carbon source | Noon et al. (2022) |
| Canonical URL | https://canopyconservation.com/park/hponkanrazi-wildlife-sanctuary |
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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Canopy (2026). Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary, Myanmar: Canopy Global 1000 rank 51 without plants, 142 with plants. Canopy Conservation, October 2026 edition. Retrieved from https://canopyconservation.com/park/hponkanrazi-wildlife-sanctuary
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