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, Kerinci Seblat ranks 29 of 1,000. With plants it ranks 92. 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.
Indonesian national METT (KSDAE), 2017: 68 percent, on a 0 to 100 scale.
Assessor: Unit self-assessment under Ditjen KSDAE METT guidance, values set by Director General decree; individual assessors not named. Overall Nilai METT only. The archived file is unsigned and its header number is a template leftover, so no decree number is cited; year taken from its title and recital and matched by the 2017 column of the Dit KK 2015 to 2019 effectiveness report.
Scale: Published overall Nilai METT index (Indonesian national METT adaptation) from a Ditjen KSDAE decree annex or an official Ditjen KSDAE statistics or performance report table. Component scores not retained; no conversion to other METT variants. Source: Ditjen KSDAE 2017 management-effectiveness values for 397 conservation areas (unsigned file); Lampiran, row TN Kerinci Seblat, column Nilai METT. Retrieved 2026-10-05. Unit name and function (taman nasional (TN)) match the cohort entity in the same province; one row per unit.
GEF METT reported as a percentage in a project evaluation, 2021: 79 percent, on a 0 to 100 scale.
Assessor: METT scorecards repeated by national park management with project support; figures supplied to the terminal evaluation team. December 2021 repeat of the METT scorecard; the evaluation reports scores on a percentage basis (Figure 14).
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 Sumatran Tiger Project terminal evaluation; Paragraph 174, page 92. Retrieved 2026-10-05. Named target national park of the project; the evaluation lists the five target parks individually (Kerinci Seblat appears as Kerinci National Park).
Indonesian national METT (KSDAE), 2019: 72 percent, on a 0 to 100 scale.
Assessor: Unit self-assessment under Ditjen KSDAE METT guidance, compiled by Ditjen KSDAE; individual assessors not named. Overall value only, printed under a Nilai % header. Scanned table read at 300 dpi.
Scale: Published overall Nilai METT index (Indonesian national METT adaptation) from a Ditjen KSDAE decree annex or an official Ditjen KSDAE statistics or performance report table. Component scores not retained; no conversion to other METT variants. Source: Dit KK report on management-effectiveness results 2015 to 2019; Rekap Nilai annex (PDF p. 57), row Kerinci Seblat, column 2019. Retrieved 2026-10-05. Unit name and function (taman nasional (TN)) match the cohort entity; one row per unit.
Indonesian national METT (KSDAE), 2022: 74 percent, on a 0 to 100 scale.
Assessor: Unit self-assessment under Ditjen KSDAE METT guidance, compiled by Ditjen KSDAE; individual assessors not named. Overall value only, unit not printed in the table; same 0 to 100 Nilai METT index as the decree values.
Scale: Published overall Nilai METT index (Indonesian national METT adaptation) from a Ditjen KSDAE decree annex or an official Ditjen KSDAE statistics or performance report table. Component scores not retained; no conversion to other METT variants. Source: Statistik Ditjen KSDAE 2022, effectiveness index table; Tabel 17 (printed p. 144), row TN Kerinci Seblat, column Nilai METT. Retrieved 2026-10-05. Unit name and function (taman nasional (TN)) match the cohort entity; one row per unit.
Sources checked for this area:
IUCN: IUCN World Heritage Outlook: Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra. Outlook rates the three-park serial property as a whole; not transferred to one component park.
Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE, Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan (Indonesia): Penetapan Nilai Efektivitas Pengelolaan Kawasan Suaka Alam, Kawasan Pelestarian Alam dan Taman Buru Tahun 2017 (397 KK), Ditjen KSDAE values file (unsigned; decree number not established). Annex row for TN Kerinci Seblat read directly.
Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE (Indonesia): Laporan Kinerja 2018, Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE. Not in the list of units that reached index 70 by 2018; list gives no value for other units.
UNDP Evaluation Resource Centre / GEF: Terminal Evaluation: Transforming Effectiveness of Biodiversity Conservation in Priority Sumatran Landscapes (Tiger Project), GEF 4892 / UNDP PIMS 5363. Paragraph 174 and Figure 14 read directly.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre: UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Indonesia (State Party page). Component of the inscribed Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra; no separate property.
Direktorat Kawasan Konservasi, Ditjen KSDAE (Indonesia): Laporan Akhir Pencapaian Kinerja Peningkatan Efektivitas Pengelolaan Kawasan Konservasi 2015-2019. Row for TN Kerinci Seblat read directly; counted.
Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE (Indonesia): Statistik Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE Tahun 2022. Row for TN Kerinci Seblat read directly; counted.
Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE (Indonesia): Statistik Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE Tahun 2023. Unit not in the 2023 table (not scored that year).
Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE (Indonesia): SK.4/KSDAE/KK/KSA.1/1/2022, Penetapan Nilai Efektivitas Pengelolaan Kawasan Konservasi sampai dengan Tahun 2021. Base Line 2021 value read, but the decree gives the latest value up to 2021 without its assessment year; not counted.
Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE (Indonesia): Statistik Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE Tahun 2024. 2024 table carries earlier values forward, so the assessment year of its value cannot be read; not counted.
Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE (Indonesia): Laporan Kinerja Direktorat Jenderal KSDAE Tahun 2017. Establishes that SK.506/KSDAE/SET/KSA.1/12/2017 set the METT target list, not the 2017 values; no score used.
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.
64.2 million tonnes of carbon inside the boundary is irrecoverable: if it were lost, it could not be recovered by 2050.
13,605 km² of the area was forest in 2000, 100% of it. 792.4 km² of that forest was lost between 2001 and 2024, 5.8% 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.
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 | 4994 |
|---|---|
| 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/kerinci-seblat |
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). Kerinci Seblat, Indonesia: Canopy Global 1000 rank 29 without plants, 92 with plants. Canopy Conservation, October 2026 edition. Retrieved from https://canopyconservation.com/park/kerinci-seblat
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