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, Kinabalu Park ranks 325 of 1,000. With plants it ranks 344. It stays in the top 500 either way. At this depth a change to the ranking can still move an area in or out, so its place is less settled than a top-300 area’s.
4.85 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 | 785 |
|---|---|
| Canopy Global 1000 list | cg1k-22ffffd |
| 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/kinabalu-park |
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). Kinabalu Park, Malaysia: Canopy Global 1000 rank 325 without plants, 344 with plants. Canopy Conservation, cg1k-22ffffd. Retrieved from https://canopyconservation.com/park/kinabalu-park
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