Master Plan of the National System of Protected Natural Areas (SINANPE) [Plan Director del Sistema Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (SINANPE)]

Peru’s updated Director Plan for Protected Areas serves as the country’s ten-year national strategy for the management of the National System of Natural Protected Areas (SINANPE) and projects a vision to 2050. Structured around a renewed conceptual framework, strategic plan and set of policy guidelines, the document identifies 75 terrestrial and 36 marine priority sites to complete a representative, ecologically connected network that supports biodiversity conservation, climate-change mitigation and ecosystem-based adaptation. It aligns with the National Environment Policy (2030), the National Biodiversity Strategy (2050) and the National Climate Change Strategy (2050), embedding commitments to Peru’s NDCs through measures such as REDD⁺ projects, landscape-scale restoration, water-regulation initiatives and community-led nature-based solutions.Operationally, the Plan promotes integrated landscape governance that extends beyond protected-area boundaries, emphasising intercultural, gender and rights-based approaches and requiring collaboration among national agencies, regional and local governments, Indigenous peoples, civil society and the private sector. Key objectives for the 2025-2035 period include: reducing land- and water-use change, curbing deforestation, improving the status of threatened ecosystems and species, lessening pollution pressures, and strengthening institutional capacity and financing (including climate funds and the Fondo Verde). By coupling effective protection with climate resilience and sustainable livelihood opportunities, the Plan positions SINANPE as a cornerstone of Peru’s strategy to confront biodiversity loss, contribute measurable GHG reductions and safeguard ecosystem services critical to local and national development.