Putting Nature on the Map
A project to identify and categorise the places in the UK where the conservation of nature and landscape comes first
IUCN’s new guidelines on their protected area management categories were published in 2008. In the light of this advice, Nik Lopoukhine, Chair of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas, has asked the IUCN UK National Committee (IUCN UK) to revise and expand the application of IUCN protected area categories in the UK and to improve coverage of UK protected areas on the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA).
In response to this request, IUCN UK has set up the Putting Nature of the Map project.
Latest News
The IUCN National Committee UK Protected Areas Working Group has now produced the handbook to assist in the application of IUCN Protected Area Categories to UK sites and this is available for download
here.
Conference 2012
UK Protected Areas - Natural Solutions
The UK National Committee are hosting their 2012 conference in Lancashire on Thursday the 26th of April, for the latest information please click
here.