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Linking Landscapes - Exploring the relationships between World Heritage cultural landscapes and IUCN protected areas
… Ib: Wilderness area Usually large unmodified or slightly modified areas, retaining their natural character and … categories depict landscapes that are more or less humanly modified, providing a description of the areas’ character in …
Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers
… be reviewed in four years and the guidelines will then be modified as appropriate. 1.2 Use of terms A mention is needed … and these sites may be semi-natural or even heavily modified, but often in ways that retain high levels of … This should be treated subjectively. This is a huge living organism. It has produced various habitats for thousands of …
World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… by climate change (SCBD 2014). Humans have now seriously modified at least half the terrestrial Earth (Venter et al. … Committee. As the World’s rivers are increasingly being modified by humans through the construction of dams and other … is no indication that local indigenous resource use has modified the rich and diverse forests in any fundamental way. …