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The IUCN has developed the protected area management categories system to define, record and classify the wide variety of specific aims and concerns when categorising protected areas and their objectives. Further supplementary guidelines have been developed specific to marine protected areas (MPAs). [3]
The area is a protected area both according to the IUCN and in the country at stake: The area is a protected area in the country at stake, although not internationally; it likely comprises voluntary conservation; it can comprise ancillary conservation; it can be considered an OECM from an international point
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
How to manage areas protected for conservation brings up a range of challenges [5] – whether it be regarding the local population, specific ecosystems or the design of the reserve itself – and because of the many unpredicatable elements in ecology issues, each protected area requires a case-specific set of guidelines. [45] Enforcing ...
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 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.
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 ...
Africa was the focus of many of the early IUCN conservation field projects. IUCN supported the 'Yellowstone model' of protected area management, which severely restricted human presence and activity in order to protect nature. [5] The IUCN also suffered from restricted financing in its early years.