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CATEGORY
IV
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Habitat/Species
Management Area: protected area managed mainly for conservation through
management intervention
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Definition
Area
of land and/or sea subject to active intervention for management purposes so
as to ensure the maintenance of habitats and/or to meet the requirements of
specific species.
Objectives
of Management
- to secure and
maintain the habitat conditions necessary to protect significant species,
groups of species, biotic communities or physical features of the environment
where these require specific human manipulation for optimum management;
- to facilitate
scientific research and environmental monitoring as primary activities associated
with sustainable resource management;
- to develop
limited areas for public education and appreciation of the characteristics
of the habitats concerned and of the work of wildlife management;
- to eliminate
and thereafter prevent exploitation or occupation inimical to the purposes
of designation; and
- to deliver
such benefits to people living within the designated area as are consistent
with the other objectives of management.
Guidance
for Selection
- The area should
play an important role in the protection of nature and the survival of species,
(incorporating, as appropriate, breeding areas, wetlands, coral reefs, estuaries,
grasslands, forests or spawning areas, including marine feeding beds).
- The area should
be one where the protection of the habitat is essential to the well-being
of nationally or locally-important flora, or to resident or migratory fauna.
- Conservation
of these habitats and species should depend upon active intervention by the
management authority, if necessary through habitat manipulation (c.f. Category
Ia).
- The size of
the area should depend on the habitat requirements of the species to be protected
and may range from relatively small to very extensive.
Organizational
Responsibility
Ownership
and management should be by the national government or, with appropriate safeguards
and controls, by another level of government, non-profit trust, corporation,
private group or individual.
Equivalent
Category in 1978 System
Nature
Conservation Reserve / Managed Nature Reserve / Wildlife Sanctuary
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