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Land/Water Protection*
This category contains all interventions designed to directly protect biodiversity through parks, reserves, easements, or other similar means. It includes interventions to identify, establish or expand parks and other legally protected areas. There are two subcategories:
1. Site/Area Protection
For many years, this was the primary action used by conservationists. This type of intervention aims to establish or expand public or private parks, reserves, and other protected areas roughly equivalent to IUCN Categories I-VI. Examples of the type of reserves include national parks, town wildlife sanctuaries, private reserves, and tribally owned hunting grounds.
2. Resource and Habitat Protection
This subcategory includes efforts to legally protect some part of the overall resource rather than the entire entity. It aims to establish protection or easements of some specific aspect of the resource on public or private lands outside of IUCN Categories I-VI. Examples about the type of protection include easements, development rights, water rights, instream flow rights, and wild & scenic river designation.
* Source: Adaptation of IUCN-CMP. 2006. Unified Classification of Conservation Actions, V. 1.0, p.7
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