electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-terrestrial-protected-areas-2017-e9f42e49

Terrestrial Protected Areas 2017 | Africa (MDPA)

48 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2017 - source table - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 48 rows from MDPA, covering Terrestrial Protected Areas 2017. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Climate and environment datasets help analysts study exposure, resource conditions, environmental pressure, and climate-related trends.

Source-provided context: Terrestrial Protected Areas 2017 in Republic of Mauritius from Environment Digest Table 1.21

How To Read This Dataset

• One row means: one source record from the original tabular resource, with Electric Sheep Africa provenance columns added where available.
• Primary geography column: country_iso3.
• Best time column: year.
• Time coverage basis: year.
• Recommended join keys: country_iso3 where available plus source-specific keys.

Coverage

Dimension	Value
Rows	48
Countries/areas	1
First period	2017
Last period	2017
Indicators	0
Columns	19
Source format	XLSX

Geographic Coverage

Top areas shown below, sorted by row count when available:

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MU	48	2017	2017	Mauritius

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• This repo preserves one source tabular resource with its usable columns kept together.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier assigned during Electric Sheep Africa engineering.	920eaf45-ed90-4e7d-b533-7712ba50f3d7:sheet1:0
country_iso3	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	ISO3 country or area code.	MU
country_name	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Country or area name.	Mauritius
source_sheet	string	Source column from the original resource.	Sheet1
year	int64	Observation year.	2017
name	string	Source column from the original resource.	State Protected Areas - Mainland
conservation_status	string	Source column from the original resource.	``
extent_ha	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	2017
source_period_end_year	int64	End year inferred from source metadata.	2017
source_period_label	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source column from the original resource.	2017
source_provider	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Publishing organization.	MDPA
source_dataset	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source dataset or package title.	Terrestrial Protected Areas 2017
source_resource	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	SOURCE_Table-1.21-Terrestrial-protected-areas-Republic-of-Mauritius-2...
source_package_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source package identifier.	a7b0cf34-b695-42c9-bf92-9e7165985dfb
source_resource_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource identifier.	920eaf45-ed90-4e7d-b533-7712ba50f3d7
source_url	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Original source URL or download URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/a7b0cf34-b695-42c9-bf92-9e7165985dfb/r...
license_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source license identifier.	CC-BY-SA-4.0
retrieved_at	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	UTC source retrieval timestamp from the Electric Sheep Africa pipeline.	2026-08-08T16:26:20Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-terrestrial-protected-areas-2017-e9f42e49")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Inspect Columns

print(df.info())
print(df.head())

Filter By Geography

if "country_iso3" in df.columns:
    sample = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MU"]

Time-Series Pattern

if "value" in df.columns and "year" in df.columns:
    trend = df.sort_values("year")

Pivot For Analysis

if {"indicator_id", "year", "value"}.issubset(df.columns):
    matrix = df.pivot_table(index="year", columns="indicator_id", values="value")
    print(matrix.tail())

Data Quality Notes

• Canonical time field: year.
• Missing values are preserved rather than silently imputed.
• Column names are standardized for machine use; source meanings are preserved where known.
• Always confirm source methodology, units, and collection definitions before policy, production, or redistribution-sensitive use.

Source And Provenance

• Source: MDPA
• Publisher: MDPA
• Portal: https://data.govmu.org
• Resource: SOURCE_Table-1.21-Terrestrial-protected-areas-Republic-of-Mauritius-2017.xlsx
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-08-08T16:32:12Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-terrestrial-protected-areas-2017-e9f42e49

Transformations Applied

• Converted the source table to Parquet for efficient analytics and ML workflows.
• Added or preserved source provenance columns where available.
• Standardized README metadata, dataset loading configuration, schema documentation, and citation format.
• Preserved source-reported values without analytical imputation.

Suggested Analyses

• Analyze seasonal or annual patterns
• Join with agriculture or health data
• Map geographic exposure
• Build time-series views and period-over-period comparisons
• Check missingness before modeling
• Use country_iso3 as the safest geography join key when present

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mauritius_terrestrial_protected_areas_2017_e9f42e49_2017,
  title        = {Terrestrial Protected Areas 2017 | Africa (MDPA)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2017},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/terrestrial-protected-areas-2017},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-terrestrial-protected-areas-2017-e9f42e49}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Original data is published by MDPA. Electric Sheep Africa engineering standardizes the data for discovery, loading, and analysis on Hugging Face. Cite both the original source and this ML-ready dataset when used.

About Electric Sheep Africa

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

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Provenance: README standardized 2026-08-11 by the Electric Sheep Africa README system. Source URL: https://data.govmu.org/dataset/terrestrial-protected-areas-2017