enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. IUCN protected area categories - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_protected_area_categories

    The Serengeti National Park, Tanzania is a designated Category II area [8] A IUCN Category II area is similar to a wilderness area in its size and its main objective of protecting functioning ecosystems. However, category II areas tend to be more lenient with human visitation and its supporting infrastructure.

  3. Category:IUCN Category II - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:IUCN_Category_II

    Protected areas listed as IUCN Category II (National Park) by the World Conservation Union / International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Note: Articles tagged as "II" in the Protected Area Infobox are automatically added to this Wikipedia category.

  4. Category : Protected areas by World Conservation Union category

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Protected_areas...

    The IUCN protected area categories are: IUCN Category Ia — Strict Nature Reserve; IUCN Category Ib — Wilderness Area; IUCN Category IINational 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

  5. Pirineus State Park - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirineus_State_Park

    The Pireneus State Park is classed as IUCN protected area category II (national park). [1] The objectives are preservation of natural ecosystems of great ecological relevance and scenic beauty while enabling scientific research, education, environmental interpretation, recreation in contact with nature and ecological tourism.

  6. Noel Kempff Mercado National Park - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Kempff_Mercado...

    The area that is now the national park was explored in 1908 by Percy Fawcett on a frontier survey for the Bolivian government. In London, he showed photographs to Arthur Conan Doyle, which fired Doyle's imagination for him to write the novel The Lost World. [8] Founded on June 28, 1979, the park was originally named Parque Nacional Huanchaca.

  7. World Commission on Protected Areas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Commission_on...

    In 1948, the IUCN established a Committee on National Parks. Two decades later the IUCN had been asked by the international community to take responsibility for preparing a world list of national parks in keeping with its role as a network to share the world’s knowledge on nature conservation, and in 1960, the IUCN raised the status of the Committee to that of a permanent Commission, with ...

  8. List of marine protected areas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_marine_protected_areas

    IUCN Category II. [8] Hat Chao Mai National Park – Marine protected area in Trang Province, Thailand, 1981, 230.86 km 2 (89.14 sq mi). IUCN Category II. [9] Hat Noppharat Thara–Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park – Marine protected area in Krabi Province, Thailand, 1983, 37.9 km 2 (14.6 sq mi), IUCN Category II. [10]

  9. Nockberge National Park - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nockberge_National_Park

    The protected area therefore did not fit into the IUCN scheme of Category II, which focused on species and ecosystem protection (making it publicly accessible). On November 16, 2004, the Carinthia National Park Committee passed the unanimous decision to convert the National Park into a biosphere reserve based on the UNESCO concept.