Category 1a
Kent H. Redford and Nigel Dudley
Category Ia reserves are typically highly protected areas that are set aside to protect biodiversity or geological features whose persistence is incompatible with all but very limited human influencer and where human visitation is strictly controlled and limited to ensure preservation of the specified conservation targets. Such reserves can serve as indispensable reference areas for scientific research. This paper broadly keeps to the 1994 concepts but proposes some important modifications to guidance.
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Category 1b
Cyril Kormos
This paper reviews the current (1994) guidelines for Category Ib-Wilderness under IUCN’s system of protected area categories. This paper preserves the focus on biodiversity conservation, which is strongly implicit in the current text, but makes this focus more explicit, while also broadening the language describing the management objectives for wilderness protected areas. This paper also provides some additional clarity on the degree of acceptable human use of wilderness areas, a question that has been central in the international wilderness debate since the passage of laws and policies defining wilderness protected areas.
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Category II
Issues Paper
Craig Groves Wildlife Conservation Society
A paper assessing and making recommendations to the guidance relating to IUVN protected area category II, prepared by Craig Groves of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management
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Category III
Nigel Dudley
The current use of the category is reviewed and some changes made to emphasise the importance of biodiversity in selection, clarify what is meant by “natural monument” and discuss how category III protected areas fit into national protected area systems.
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Category IV
Issues Paper
Nigel Dudley, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend
A paper assessing and making recommendations to the guidance relating to IUCN protected area category IV, prepared by Nigel Dudley of WCPA and Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend of WCPA and the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
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Category V
Adrian Phillips and Jessica Brown
This paper reviews the definition of Category V protected areas and their management objectives and distinguishing features. It discusses the challenges facing Category V protected areas, their role in the landscape and seascape, and what makes Category V unique with respect to other protected area management categories. It proposes a revision to the wording of the 1994 definition to recognize the multiple significant values of Category V protected areas, including biological diversity.
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Category VI
Cláudio C. Maretti, with support from Olatz Cases and Ticiana Imbroisi
This paper reviews the definition of Category VI, keeping the essences of the previous definition, looking for a stronger concept in this new definition, keeping the classification orientation towards objectives, skipping from odd particularities, and trying to clarify some strong linkages and consequences of this approach. The proposed new guidance is outlined first and discussion of the changes follows.
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