For Europe, data on the nationally designated sites in the WDPA are sourced from the Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA) maintained by the EEA.2 As an example, Figure 3 illustrates the PAs recorded in the WDPA for Iceland. Consequently, calculating indicators from the database is not trivial. The UN published country-level indicators (produced by UNEP-WCMC from the WDPA) for monitoring progress towards the (superannuated) Millennium Development Goals3.