Table 2. Total tropical forest protected (km2 and %) by protection class and region.
| Area | Biome | Latin America and the Caribbean | Africa | Asia |
| Forest Area | 13,154,816 | 6,989,019 | 2,529,918 | 3,635,879 |
| Protected Area | 3,619,941 (27.5) | 2,719,301 (38.9) | 411,761 (16.3) | 488,879 (13.4) |
| Ia | 166,892 (1.3) | 152,650 (2.2) | 1,425 (0.1) | 12,817 (0.4) |
| Ib | 21,207 (0.2) | 10,415 (0.1) | 1,097 (0.0) | 9,695 (0.3) |
| II | 740,910 (5.6) | 482,193 (6.9) | 127,902 (5.1) | 130,815 (3.6) |
| III | 57,837 (0.4) | 47,140 (0.7) | 483 (0.0) | 10,214 (0.3) |
| IV | 142,896 (1.1) | 21,211 (0.3) | 20,447 (0.8) | 101,238 (2.8) |
| Strict (I–IV) | 1,129,742 (8.6) | 713,609 (10.2) | 151,354 (6.0) | 264,779 (7.3) |
| V | 239,072 (1.8) | 190,400 (2.7) | 52 (0.0) | 48,620 (1.3) |
| VI | 799,854 (6.1) | 716,626 (10.3) | 26,069 (1.0) | 57,159 (1.6) |
| Multi-use (V–VI) | 1,038,926 (7.9) | 907,026 (13.0) | 26,121 (1.0) | 105,779 (2.9) |
| Unknown | 544,336 (4.1) | 215,721 (3.1) | 216,377 (8.6) | 112,238 (3.1) |
| Indigenous | 850,394 (6.5) | 850,394 (12.2) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Other | 56,543 (0.4) | 32,551 (0.5) | 17,909 (0.7) | 6,083 (0.2) |
Note: Numbers in parentheses are percentages.