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A wilderness area (IUCN Category Ib) is similar to a strict nature reserve, but generally larger and protected in a slightly less stringent manner.. These areas are a protected domain in which biodiversity and ecosystem processes (including evolution) are allowed to flourish or experience restoration if previously disturbed by human activity.
The WDPA uses the IUCN's definition of a protected area as the main criteria for entries to be included in the database. The database contains comprehensive information on the different types of protected areas ranging from those strictly protected for conservation purposes to those where sustainable use of natural resources is allowed; and includes government, co-managed, private and ...
The IUCN protected area categories are: IUCN Category Ia — Strict Nature Reserve; IUCN Category Ib — Wilderness Area; IUCN Category II — National Park; IUCN Category III — Natural Monument or Natural Feature; IUCN Category IV — Habitat management area / Species Management Area; IUCN Category V — Protected Landscape / Protected Seascape
The complete list of countries (as of 2016) with IUCN category 1b sites can be found in the Management Guidelines for IUCN Category 1b (wilderness) Protected Areas. [6] The most up-to-date resource is the Protected Planet World Database on Protected Areas , which can be searched by many filters including IUCN category levels and country.
Mountains: Nationally designated protected areas cover 14.3% of the world's mountain areas, and these mountainous protected areas made up 32.5% of the world's total terrestrial protected area coverage in 2009. Mountain protected area coverage has increased globally by 21% since 1990 and out of the 198 countries with mountain areas, 43.9% still ...
Pages in category "Protected areas" ... Indigenous and community conserved area; IUCN protected area categories; K. ... Wildlife management area; World Database on ...
Protected areas listed as IUCN Category III (Natural Monument) by the World Conservation Union / International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Articles tagged as "III" in the Protected Area Infobox are automatically added to this Wikipedia category.
IUCN category, where "IUCN" refers to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, may refer to: IUCN protected area categories used to classify protected areas. IUCN Red List categories used to classify the state or threat to species' extinction.