Resource Protection Area
A resource protection area is a protected area in which biological diversity is to be preserved and protected in the long term in order to keep it usable for humans. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) defines such areas under Category VI Managed Resource Protected Area (resource protection area with management) .
IUCN definition
According to IUCN, a resource protection area is:
“Category VI protected areas conserve ecosystems and habitats together with associated cultural values and traditional natural resource management systems. They are generally large, with most of the area in a natural condition, where a proportion is under sustainable natural resource management and where low-level non-industrial use of natural resources compatible with nature conservation is seen as one of the main aims of the area. "
“An area that primarily contains unchanged natural systems and that is managed to ensure the long-term protection and preservation of biological diversity, while at the same time offering an environmentally sound flow of natural products and services to meet the needs of the population . "
As with all IUCN categories, the focus of the classification is on the design of the protection goal and management (measures of interventions and prohibitions).
Application and criticism
Some ecologists criticize the fact that the claim of these areas can hardly be implemented in reality, since nature conservation almost never gets by without restricting human activities and, conversely, commercial activities of the population almost always involve an intervention in ecosystems . The protection category goes far beyond classic nature protection ( wilderness concept ) and is closely linked to the more modern biosphere concept , i.e. areas in which resource conservation as a human habitat together with the "rest of" nature is in the foreground ( ecosystem service ).
In fact, this class includes designations such as drinking water protection areas or mineral spring protection areas , avalanche protection forest (ban forest), or marine spawning protection areas in fishing grounds where the functioning of the natural ecosystem forms the basis of its use as a resource, the natural cleaning of the water in the former two, a healthy, resilient one Forest structure in the following, a protection against overfishing in the latter. Even urban green belt for the air pollution as well as in desertifikationsgefährdeten areas to protect against desertification / devastation or field boundaries in endangered by wind erosion of arable land used primarily for the protection of man and his business, (classic) with conservation as gewolltem synergy effect.
Individual evidence
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↑ Quote IUCN Protected Areas Categories System , iucn.org, accessed August 3, 2013;
Translation: WWF Germany: Background information on IUCN International Protected Area Categories , September 2004 - ↑ European Environment Agency (Ed.): Protected areas in Europe - an overview . EEA Report No 5/2012. 2012, ISBN 978-92-9213-329-0 , ISSN 1725-9177 , 4.1.3 The IUCN categories for types of protected area management , p. 55 , col. 2 f ., doi : 10.2800 / 55955 ( pdf , eea.europa.eu).
