Protected Areas

Protected areas, in the most basic sense, are areas of land or sea that have been given certain levels of protection for the conservation of biodiversity and socio-environmental values. Human intervention and resource exploitation are limited in these areas.

IUCN Classification

  • The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), through its World Commission on Protected Areas, has put forward six Protected Area Management Categories.

The categories are as follows –

  • Category IA: Strict Nature Reserve: Protected areas managed mainly for science and receives least human intervention. E.g. Urwald Rothwald in Austria
  • Category IB: Wilderness Area: Wilderness protection. E.g. ....
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Ecology & Environment