Talk:Protected area

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This article is part of WikiProject Protected Areas, a WikiProject related to national parks and other protected areas worldwide. It may include the protected area infobox.

Contents 1 Renaming 2 Freshwater protected areas 3 Please create more "Wildlife of ....." articles for all countries. 4 Invitation for Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas of India & Conservation 5 Statistics

[edit] Renaming

I have found the following list in the National park article. They are probably candidates for redirecting/renaming "Protected areas of [country]", as I already did with Australia. That way they are more inclusive and areas other than national parks can be included (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected Areas).

• National parks (Australia)
• National parks (Brazil)
• National parks (Canada)
• National parks (England and Wales)
• National parks (France)
• National parks (Germany)
• National parks (India)
• National parks (Ireland)
• National parks (Kenya)
• National parks (New Zealand)
• National parks (Netherlands)
• National parks (Northern Ireland)
• National parks (Poland)
• National parks (Scotland)
• National parks (Slovenia)
• National parks (Sweden)
• National parks (South Africa)
• National parks (Tanzania)
• National parks (Uganda)
• National parks (United States)

Guy 19:33 Oct 7, 2002 (UTC)

• I disagree. National parks are a special type of protected area that should be listed separately as they are significant areas of national and even world heritage importance -- kiwiinapanic 12:09 19 Jul 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Freshwater protected areas

Although protected area networks have been developed in terrestrial and marine environments, the concept is not well developed for freshwater environments. Few scientific papers are referenced through this phrase, and national freshwater protected area programs are under-developed in all nations. Sites protected through the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands 1971 form the largest network of freshwater protected areas worldwide (www.ramsar.org) but rivers and underground freshwater ecosystems are under-represented in this system.

[edit] Please create more "Wildlife of ....." articles for all countries.

.... 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)

[edit] Invitation for Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas of India & Conservation

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)

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)

[edit] Statistics

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)