Private protected area
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A Private Protected Area, also known as a 'Private Reserve' is not an official category within IUCN's Protected Area
guidelines, but simply encompasses those protected areas that fall under geographical space that is privately owned and 'kept aside' for public benefit and will be likely to fall into any one of the IUCN Protected Area Management Categories
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The IUCN's definition of a Private Protected Area as stated at the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress is;
A Private Protected Area represents a private initiative towards preserving biodiversity, which indicates the importance of the involvement of individuals corporations and other private bodies in the understanding and maintenance of protected areas. In Eastern and Southern Africa, privately owned lands play a particularly important role in conserving
critical biodiversity. Private protected areas in Southern Africa alone protect millions of ecological important areas, especially in critical buffer zones and corridor areas.
Protected area
Protected areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognised natural, ecological and/or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international...
guidelines, but simply encompasses those protected areas that fall under geographical space that is privately owned and 'kept aside' for public benefit and will be likely to fall into any one of the IUCN Protected Area Management Categories
IUCN Protected Area Management Categories
The enlisting of protected areas is the fundamental strategy being used towards the conservation of the world's natural environment and biodiversity...
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The IUCN's definition of a Private Protected Area as stated at the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress is;
“a land parcel of any size that is 1) predominantly managed for biodiversity conservation;.
2) protected with or without formal government recognition; and 3) is owned or otherwise
secured by individuals, communities, corporations or non-governmental organisations”
A Private Protected Area represents a private initiative towards preserving biodiversity, which indicates the importance of the involvement of individuals corporations and other private bodies in the understanding and maintenance of protected areas. In Eastern and Southern Africa, privately owned lands play a particularly important role in conserving
critical biodiversity. Private protected areas in Southern Africa alone protect millions of ecological important areas, especially in critical buffer zones and corridor areas.
See also
- High-Biodiversity Wilderness AreasHigh-Biodiversity Wilderness AreasHigh-Biodiversity Wilderness Areas is an elaboration on the IUCN Protected Area classification of a Wilderness Area , which outlines five vast wilderness areas of particularly dense and important levels of biodiversity...
- Biodiversity Hotspots
- Biosphere Reserves
- Protected Areas
- Conservation biologyConservation biologyConservation biology is the scientific study of the nature and status of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction...
- Ecoregions
- Crisis EcoregionsCrisis EcoregionsCrisis ecoregions are terrestrial biomes facing significant threat to their biodiversity and requiring well directed conservation efforts in order to curb the irreversible loss of plant and animal species and their surrounding habitats...
- Last of the WildLast of the WildLast of the Wild is an initiative created in 2002 on behalf of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University to identify the last remaining 'wild' areas on the earth's land surface, measured by human influence...