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IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). [1][2] The enlisting of such areas is part of a strategy being used toward the conservation of the world's natural environment and ...
In 2015, 76 IUCN articles were published in peer reviewed scientific journals. [41] A report, released at the IUCN World Parks Congress in Sydney on 12 November 2014 showed that the 209,000 conservation reserves around the world now cover 15.4 per cent of the total land area.
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.
List of largest protected areas. Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest terrestrial protected area in the world. The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is compiled and managed by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, an executive agency of the United Nations Environment Programme. [1] It uses the IUCN and CBD definitions of ...
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 ...
A strict nature reserve (IUCN category Ia) or wilderness area (IUCN category Ib) is the highest category of protected area recognised by the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), a body which is part of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). These category I areas are the most stringently protected natural landscapes .
On 17 September 2003 at the IUCN World Parks Congress in Durban, President Marc Ravalomanana announced an expansion of Madagascar's protected areas from approximately 17,000 km 2 (6,600 sq mi) to over 60,000 km 2 (23,000 sq mi) (from 3% to 10% of Madagascar's area) over the next five years. The Malagasy government formed the Commission du ...
The oldest legally protected reserve recorded in history is the Main Ridge Forest Reserve, established by an ordinance dated 13 April 1776. [32] Other sources mention the 1778 approval of a protected area on then- Khan Uul , a mountain previous protected by local nomads for centuries in Mongolia, by then-ruling Qing China Tenger Tetgegch Khaan .