== Protected areas ===== Austria ===In Austria, only one area has been designated as an IUCN category I protected area:* "Urwald Rothwald" (IUCN Ia) in the "Wildnisgebiet Dürrenstein" (Ib), Lower Austrian "Eisenwurzen"=== Germany ===In their national strategy for biological diversity out to 2020 published in 2007, the German Federal Government set the aim of allowing 2% of the area of Germany to develop naturally and in an undisturbed way into wilderness areas.
Strogi naravni rezervat (IUCN kategorija Ia) in naravno območje (IUCN kategorija Ib) sta najvišji kategoriji zavarovanega območja, ki jih priznava Svetovna komisija za zavarovana območja (WCPA), ki je del Svetovne zveze za varstvo narave (IUCN).