Talk:Nature reserve

Nature Conservancy
Nature conservancy seems to redirect here. I was actually searching for the organization known as The Nature Conservancy. Would some sort of disambiguation be in order? Michael Kinyon 02:36, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Fixed the "nature conservancy" redirect. I too came to Wiki and searched "nature conservancy" and it redirected me here.  "Nature conservancy" is not a term widely used as a synonym for "nature reserve" or "nature preserve."  In its most common use, it's a proper noun - the name of the U.S. based "Nature Conservancy," which, incidentally, is the name of the organization's internal magazine.

Forest Reserve
Also redirects here, when what was sought was a discussion of medieval nobility's protecting hunting areas, not modern national parks. On the other hand, this article needs more of that historical discussion. Protected wildlife reserves in (most?/all?) countries began as preserves to ensure future hunting. -LlywelynII (talk) 06:15, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Also needs more Japan
Cf. eg. Jared Diamond's Collapse. -LlywelynII (talk) 06:15, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

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)

Invitation for 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)

Galapagos Islands
Perhaps it would be nice if the Galapagos Islands are included in this article aswell (almost entirely protected as nature reserve by the Chilean Government) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.245.184.174 (talk) 11:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC).
 * Maybe, but first get the country right - the last time I looked it was Ecuador. Has there been a border war recently GrahamBould 12:07, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Reserve design
The page Reserve design was created by an editor as part of a school project. THere looks to be good information there, but it may do better as part of this article. &mdash; Gaff ταλκ 16:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, reserve design seems to talk about reserves more than the design of reserves so it would probably serve better in here. Metros 16:09, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Derbyshire/United Kingdom
I removed the following text as too detailed for this overview: "Derbyshire Dales NNR lies within the Peak District National Park. The reserve consists of five separate limestone valleys Lathkill, Cressbrook, Monk's, Long and Hay. These five dales represent some of the best examples of wildlife and geology in the White Peak." This is just one of 215 NNRs in England alone, and this article would become unmanageably long if everyone described their pet reserve (to say nothing of the fact that it's inappropriately wikilinked). Dave.Dunford (talk) 18:08, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

First modern reserve?
In the article Drachenfels (Siebengebirge) is credited as being the first modern protected area. However, in that article it says; 'In 1922 the first protection measures were put in place and in 1956 the site was declared a national park.' Apparently, the Prussian Government just bought it in 1836 and stopped the quarrie activity. This is not the same as creating a formal nature reserve. However, in 1899, the National Trust in England bought the Wicken Fen specifically as a nature reserve and remains the most important wetland in Europe (check out reference 1 in the Fen article).

I think that is more likely to be the first nature reserve and the article should be edited to say this. 118.208.234.200 (talk) 04:53, 10 July 2012 (UTC)


 * No idea what reference you are indicating, but it seems highly unlikely that, by any measure, Wicken Fen is "the most important wetland in Europe". Dave.Dunford (talk) 09:50, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Benefits
It would be helpful to identify and summarize the economic and non-economic benefits of nature reserves. Thanks! --Lbeaumont (talk) 12:21, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Australia
I have replaced the content for "Australia" with new content in order to clarify that nature reserves are a type of protected area used in Australia rather the name used for all protected areas in Australia. The new content includes a hat note linking to an article about this type of protected area in Australia which provides more information about this matter. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 03:43, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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Number
How many Nature reserves are in the world?--Kaiyr (talk) 07:56, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Ask Protectedplanet.net Kaiyr ;) Triton (talk) 20:31, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Nature reserve/protected areas
Hi there! It think this article need to be vastly reorganized, most of the "Nature reserve Around the world" chapters speak about various type of protected areas. For me, all this need to be transferred in this article and only the information about nature reserves needs to be conserve here (knowing that "nature reserve" has a different meaning in every country, as stated in the intro). Triton (talk) 20:31, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Merge from Wildlife refuge
It's the same topic; "wildlife refuge" is just mostly an Americanism. There do not appear to be any nature preserves where preservation of the wild plant and animal life are not part of the purpose. At most, "wildlife refuge" or "wildlife sanctuary" is a subset of "nature reserve", and too indistinct a concept to support a stand-alone article. Various overlapping terms are kind of randomly redirecting to that article or to this one. It's a confused and confusing mess. The real world isn't drawing the distinction someone is trying to make, as a quick review of the places listed at each article will show (see especially examples like Alédjo Wildlife Reserve and Scotney Nature Refuge).

The Nature reserve article is sub-standard, in lacking sufficient overview information (it's almost entirely a list, and what little background it does have is about wildlife refuges/reserves). The Wildlife refuge article is a wreck, mostly unsourced, making unsupported claims (e.g. that the term is strictly confined to naturally isolated landforms like islands, when that is obviously not true – someone's confusing it with Refuge (ecology), which doesn't really mean that either). In parts, it's just gibberish that doesn't make any sense in English. Merging the salvageable parts of that page into this article would improve the content and the reader experience. —&thinsp;AReaderOutThataway&thinsp;t/c 19:53, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

PS: Much of the material at Protected area should probably also merge here. The general concept includes areas protected for non-living natural resources, but the majority of material at that page is about nature reserves. Conservation area is clearly the same thing as Nature reserve (I can't find a conservation area that doesn't exist for wildlife conservation), but it's redirecting to Protected area instead. The IUCN-specific material at Protected area belongs in IUCN Protected Area Management Categories. There's kind of a subtle WP:NOTDICT and WP:POVFORK issue going on here. People are latching onto specific exact terms on a per-country or per-organization basis and trying to build articles and even categories around them, when they really resolve to much smaller number of concepts, for which various groups and jurisdictions use inconsistent terminology. —&thinsp;AReaderOutThataway&thinsp;t/c 21:13, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Double parentheses in lead
I think the parenthetical "also known as" in the first sentence makes it more difficult to read. It seems logically better as a single sentence, but it adds another layer of complexity to the grammar. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:38, 24 February 2020 (UTC)