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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.
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.
In 2012, the Corozal Sustainable Future Initiative entered the reserve into a trust in perpetuity, whereby on the one hand the owner CSFI commits to manage the reserve as an IUCN Category II national park, and the Government of Belize, on the other hand, has included Shipstern C&MA in the National Protected Area System of Belize.
In addition, Mtirala National Park is located along the "Batumi bottleneck", which is a convergence zone for migrating raptor species. In total, more than 1 million raptors of 35 different species migrate through the park in the autumn, including greater than 50% of the global populations of the booted eagle and European honey-buzzard. [3] [5]
Established in 1968, the central feature of the park is the 1,627 m (5,338 ft) high Mount Kurikoma . [3] [4] [5] It is rated a protected landscape (category II) according to the IUCN. [6] Like all Quasi-National Parks in Japan, the park is managed by the local prefectural governments. [7]
[5] [6] It was established as Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve in 1988, and the name was changed to Quttinirpaaq in 1999, [7] when Nunavut was created, and became a national park in 2000. [8] The reserve covers 37,775 km 2 (14,585 sq mi), [ 9 ] making it the second largest park in Canada , after Wood Buffalo National Park .
The Kintrishi National Park (Georgian: კინტრიშის დაცული ლანდშაფტი) is a protected landscape in Kobuleti Municipality, Adjara, Western Georgia. Located at the gorge of the Kintrishi River , it was established in 2007.
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 ...