---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- en
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
- tabular-regression
multilinguality: monolingual
size_categories:
- n<1K
tags:
- "africa"
- "electric-sheep-africa"
- "open-data"
- "metadata-backed"
- "climate-environment"
- "parquet"
- "tabular"
- "text"
- "humanitarian"
- "hdx"
- "environment"
- "geodata"
- "bfa"
- "conservation"
pretty_name: "Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA) in Burkina Faso | Africa (original)"
---

# Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA) in Burkina Faso | Africa (original)

**Size category:** `n<1K` - **Formats:** `parquet` - **Sector:** climate_environment - *Engineered by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)*

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## TL;DR

This dataset is part of the Electric Sheep Africa catalog on Hugging Face. It is indexed for African data discovery with standardized metadata, loading guidance, provenance notes, and analyst-oriented context.

## What This Dataset Covers

Public datasets help analysts inspect structured evidence, build reproducible workflows, and compare patterns across domains.

Dataset context from the existing Hugging Face card: Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA) in Burkina Faso Publisher: The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-igo · Updated: 2026-03-19 Abstract The World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA) combines the formerly separate World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM). The WDPCA is the most comprehensive global database… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-unep-wdpca-bfa.

## Dataset Profile

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Hugging Face repo | [`electricsheepafrica/africa-unep-wdpca-bfa`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-unep-wdpca-bfa) |
| Sector | climate_environment |
| Topic tags | humanitarian, hdx, electric-sheep-africa, environment, geodata, bfa |
| Modalities | `tabular`, `text` |
| Formats | `parquet` |
| Size category | `n<1K` |
| Countries | Burkina Faso |
| ISO3 coverage | `BFA` |
| Last modified on HF | `2026-04-04 15:13:39+00:00` |
| Inventory snapshot | `2026-07-16T16:00:34Z` |

## How To Read This Dataset

- Start from the repository files and the dataset viewer when available.
- Treat the README context as a fast orientation layer; confirm variable definitions and units in the data files before modeling.
- Use explicit country columns when present. When geography is only implied by the title or source metadata, document that assumption in downstream analysis.
- Preserve missing values until you have a defensible imputation rule.

## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-unep-wdpca-bfa")
print(ds)

split_name = next(iter(ds))
table = ds[split_name]
print(table.features)
print(table[:3])
```

### Convert To Pandas When Tabular

```python
from datasets import Dataset

first_split = ds[next(iter(ds))]
if isinstance(first_split, Dataset):
    df = first_split.to_pandas()
    print(df.head())
```

## Data Quality Notes

- This card was standardized from the Electric Sheep Africa Hugging Face metadata inventory.
- Exact schema, row counts, and source files should be inspected in the repository data files.
- Metadata gaps from the inventory: upstream_publisher.
- Do not infer policy meaning from labels alone; confirm definitions, units, and methods in the source material.

## Source And Provenance

- **Source context:** original
- **Publisher/source attribution:** original
- **License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- **Hugging Face URL:** [https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-unep-wdpca-bfa](https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-unep-wdpca-bfa)
- **Inventory retrieved at:** `2026-07-16T16:00:34Z`

## Suggested Analyses

- Inspect schema and missingness before modeling.
- Profile variables by geography, time, and subgroup columns where present.
- Join with other Electric Sheep Africa datasets using explicit country, year, and indicator fields when available.
- Build reproducible notebooks that cite both the original source context and the Electric Sheep Africa Hugging Face repo.

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_unep_wdpca_bfa_2026,
  title        = {Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA) in Burkina Faso | Africa (original)},
  author       = {original},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-unep-wdpca-bfa},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-unep-wdpca-bfa}}
}
```

## License

Released under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Original source rights remain with the original publisher or data provider. Electric Sheep Africa engineering standardizes discovery metadata, documentation, and usage guidance for analysis on Hugging Face.

## About Electric Sheep Africa

Electric Sheep Africa publishes ML-ready African public datasets on Hugging Face.

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Provenance: metadata-backed README standardized 2026-08-12 by the Electric Sheep Africa README system. Inventory source: `catalog/esa_metadata_inventory/master_metadata.jsonl`.