With the official establishment of China’s first national parks in 2021, the cause of natural protected areas face a huge strategic development opportunity, both in terms of further integration and optimization of various types of natural protected areas, as well as planning to achieve multi-regulation, and supervision and management to change to scientific refinement, and even more in the information age into a new era of big data timing management to modernize. Big data of natural protected areas is a technical product in the context of big data, which is closely related to the construction of natural protected areas and is an important strategic resource. The paper made a query for the current job demand and job setting of specialized technical personnel in the direction of big data, and the results show a serious lack of such talents. In view of the importance of big data means to the construction and management of natural protected areas, this paper composes the relevant literature and professional settings of big data in natural protected areas, and discusses the application positions, necessary knowledge, and talent structure of big data talents in natural protected areas, aiming to provide certain ideas and references for the cultivation of talents in natural protected areas.