Talk:Protected area

message: .... and kindly contribute to these new articles when you get time, and request others too.
See Wildlife of India for reference.
Thanks
Atulsnischal 18:13, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: '''Please create more "[[Wildlife of .....]]" articles for all countries.'''

message: If you are interested in Environment, Wildlife, Conservation and Nature etc. please join in to contribute, even starting off with making new stub class articles will be a great contribution.
Sincerely
Atulsnischal 16:36, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We need senior administrators or people who are long in Wikipedia to help us with the templates and for other further helps. Details can be seen in its talk page. IT's urgent. We want this wkiproject to be added to the exsisting WP:IND banner. Amartyabag  TALK2ME 05:02, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: '''Invitation for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas of India]] & Conservation'''

message: I think it would be nice to add a table with total size of protected areas per country, both in km² and % of countries' area.
for example:
Australia | 895 280 km² | 11.5%  (http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/nrs/science/locations.html)
Nicaragua |  22 421 km² | 17.3%   (http://www.marena.gob.ni/areas_protegidas/estructura.htm)
If we could add columns for the different IUCN categories, it would be even better, but the data is quite hard to get. Australia's department of the environment's website is really good for that. But most countries don't provide as much detail.AtikuX (talk) 07:31, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: here's a start... Elekhh (talk) 05:35, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statistics 

message: *Many  Protected areas articles have been recently renamed. Creators or major editors of any Protected areas of ... article may be interested in the discussion at Talk:Protected_areas_in_Tamil_Nadu#Requested_move.--Marcus (talk) 00:31, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Protected areas title changes

message: There's some discussion at wt:PAREAS about definition of the term protected areas.  I wonder if the use of the term in Wikipedia should be brought back to being about Protected Areas defined and listed by the IUCN only.  This protected areas article used capitalized Protected Areas from its origination in 2002 until this Nov 2004 edit. doncram (talk) 01:24, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Umm, you're simply repeating yourself.  No it is not obvious what a Wikipedia article on "Protected areas" should cover.  Discussing at wt:PAREAS.  This note here is to point others to the discussion at wt:PAREAS. doncram (talk) 02:10, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is topic is "protected area(s)". Logic dictates that the scope should be "areas" (a term that presumably could designate anything from about 1 cm2 to many thousands of km2) that are "protected" (meaning that some sort of legal arrangement exists to prevent actions in some way deleterious to the area). It's not "protected areas of ecological interest or wildlife value," nor is it "IUCN-recognized protected areas." Please refrain from editing it in a manner that suggests that Wikipedia does not deem protected areas to be "protected areas" unless they meet one of these definitions. --Orlady (talk) 02:26, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected Areas vs. protected areas 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: https://portals.iucn.org/library/efiles/documents/PAPS-016.pdf is the correct ref for ref 14 - it does not seem easily editable like it was in wikipedia so I can only list it here  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.244.74.200 (talk) 08:50, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ref wrong 

message: someone to make article for Secure Digital's Protected area  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.5.158.45 (talk) 23:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Secure Digital 

message: In the first sentence of this article is stated: "Protected areas ...(have) .... natural, ecological or cultural values." What I want to know is: what is exactly the difference between natural and ecological in this sentence? Could anyone please explain that to me? Many thanks, --Dick Bos (talk) 07:58, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  natural <-> ecological ? 

message: Minor Improvements to Start
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I would like to propose a few changes to this article before editing them directly.
First, under the "By area" section, notable protected areas and examples of such should be included from all regions of the Earth, including Asia and other countries as well. Protected areas for conservation are not only limited to the mentioned nations of Australia, U.S., Nicaragua, etc., and so the article should reflect that.
In the section "Effectiveness," I believe the phrase "The Asian country Bhutan" should be omitted. Instead, it might make more sense to simply say "The country of Bhutan..." and proceed with the rest of the statement.
The article seems unbiased and informational, so good work!
Within the section of "Protection of natural resources," I think the inclusion of "ecosystem services" is vital. Protected areas also serve as notable sources of ecosystem services such as the regulation of climate, air quality, and water quality. A section dedicated to the discussion of the unspoken ecosystem services provided by an ecosystem's biodiversity may be useful here.
In the "Challenges" section, it would be useful to discuss the cost and governance of large-scale implementation of protected areas, and the enforcement of such. I will include a source that discusses these challenges, but protected areas are yet to encompass a majority of the available ecological environment because of the difficulty in managing the existence of humanity alongside a protected area and what consequences the implementation of a protected area may have on a society that has previously relied on a natural resource or ecosystem service within that area. This information seems underrepresented in this article. Ijxw33 (talk) 20:19, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Policy Analysis

message: — Assignment last updated by Marissabasi (talk) 02:37, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: BSC 4052 Conservation Biology

message: Many indigenous communities roundly criticize this method of "fortress conservation", citing, primarily, violations of human rights in enforcement. Should this take a more central role in the article? I see oblique references to it, but it feels eurocentric and inaccurate not to include the indigenous respectives. 67.173.232.108 (talk) 13:39, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @67.173.232.108 I believe the most high-profile and well-reported incident of this would be seen here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/wwf-world-wide-fund-nature-parks-torture-death. For further reading, Survival International has published "Decolonize Conservation", which covers the topic is much greater detail. 67.173.232.108 (talk) 13:43, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

text: I (made an account and) looked into the situation of this on Wikipedia, it appears there is an article about Fortress conservation. My intuition is that these articles cover the same topic, but from different viewpoints. Fortress conservation is incredibly useful supplementary information to Protected area from an indigenous, rather than European or American, perspective. Would it be appropriate to, at the very least, link Fortress conservation within the lead of this article as a first step to incorporating broader perspectives and maintaining  a NPOV? TaliAu (talk) 14:09, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indigenous rights 

message: On "World map with percentage of each country under protection," aren't the colors a little severe? I think there should be at least one country that's some shade of green.
72.3% is still yellow. It is kind of nuts to expect any country to protect so much. LesbianTiamat (talk) 05:17, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map colors 

message: The distinction between protected areas (as defined by the IUCN) and nature reserves seems rather vague.  If all protected areas are also nature reserves, that would imply that there is no (de facto) difference between the terms, and therefore warrant the merging of the articles.  ZFT (talk) 21:56, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are there any protected areas that are not considered nature reserves?