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IUCN definition

Defining protected areas – implication of revising the IUCN categories to protected areas in the United Kingdom. IUCN undertook a long period of consultation to agree revised guidance to its protected area definition and categories.

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IUCN definition

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  1. Defining protected areas – implication of revising the IUCN categories to protected areas in the United Kingdom

  2. IUCN undertook a long period of consultation to agree revised guidance to its protected area definition and categories

  3. The new edition of the IUCN guidance on protected area categories was published just over a year ago at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona

  4. IUCN definition One key change: a new definition • A clearly defined geographical space, recognised, dedicated and managed, through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values

  5. IUCN categories Categories remain broadly the same but with different interpretations In particular, Category IV is no longer defined by being a protected area maintained by active management intervention to a protected area for habitats and species

  6. For example, many small, un-managed protected areas have a place in the WDPA, whereas before they did not

  7. IUCN categories

  8. IUCN sees protected areas being defined by both management objectives (category) and governance type

  9. Information on protected areas, including their category, is loaded onto the World Database on Protected Areas, based at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge

  10. Two questions Should the UK engage with the new categories and if so how? What are the implications of the new definition and the revised categories for protected areas in the UK?

  11. Categories Formal request from Nik Lopoukhine, the chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Key component of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Programme of Work on Protected Areas

  12. Definition Questions about the UK’s definition of protected areas were at the heart of the categories debate Different parts of the government define protected areas in different ways Rethinking protected area categories and the new paradigm

  13. The 1994 guidelines to the IUCN categories were quite specific… Table: Matrix of management objectives and IUCN protected area management categories

  14. The new definition and principles have switched this around… Principles…. “For IUCN, only those areas where the main objective is conserving nature can be considered protected areas; this can include many areas with other goals as well, at the same level, but in the case of conflict, nature conservation will be the priority”

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