Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas/Status

The layout of protected area articles:

Protected area series

 * Level one:
 * Protected area -B
 * International protected areas -nonexistent


 * Level two
 * Protected areas of Australia
 * Protected areas of the United States


 * Level 3
 * Protected areas of New South Wales (Australia), all other Australian states
 * Protected areas of California -list only
 * that's all


 * Level 4
 * Numerous national park articles -Does any country have a complete set of articles? How many follow format?
 * Numerous state park articles - Do any follow format for level 4?
 * Some National forest articles, wildlife refuge articles, etc. - Do any follow format?
 * Some lower level park articles - Do any follow format for Level 4?

List articles

 * List of national parks
 * List of national parks of England and Wales redirects to article on park system with list as do Scotland and Northern Ireland lists
 * List of Spanish national parks -most other countries articles in form of List of national parks of Belarus
 * List of national parks of Australia
 * List of U.S. national parks
 * List of National Monuments of the United States
 * List of U.S. wilderness areas -97% complete
 * List of miscellaneous U.S. public areas -only three items on list
 * List of U.S. National Forests
 * List of National Wildlife Refuges
 * List of National Wild and Scenic Rivers
 * List of U.S. National Parks Service parks
 * List of U.S. government designations for places


 * List of state parks -only U.S. and Mexico
 * List of New York state parks, etc. -incomplete, no articles on state park systems but some lists provide basic details


 * City level lists
 * List of New York City parks - not complete
 * Royal Parks of London
 * List of urban public parks and gardens of Hong Kong

Descriptive articles

 * Protected area
 * Park
 * National park
 * National Forest -refers to U.S. only
 * State park - refers to U.S. and Mexico only
 * Provincial park - in Canada (stub)
 * Regional park
 * United States National Monument
 * National Memorial - a U.S.-centric article
 * Wilderness
 * Wilderness area
 * Special Protection Area
 * NATURA 2000
 * Special Area of Conservation
 * Site of Special Scientific Interest
 * Global 200
 * World Heritage Site
 * Country park -British only, doesn't mention Hong Kong

Managing organization articles

 * United States Forest Service
 * National Park Service --stub refers to U.S. one only
 * U.S. Park Police
 * U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
 * Bureau of Land Management - U.S.
 * Parks Canada -stub
 * English Nature
 * English Heritage
 * Scottish Natural Heritage
 * Countryside Council for Wales
 * Environment and Heritage Service

See also Conservation series articles -looks like a non-active project (List of conservation topics)
 * Conservation in Australia, a few others

Indonesia

 * Main article: List of national parks of Indonesia
 * All articles have infobox, navbox, map, coordinates, interwikilinks, and wikiproject tags.

Has infobox
all parks now have infobox
 * Tongariro National Park
 * Paparoa National Park
 * Te Urewera National Park
 * Egmont National Park
 * Whanganui National Park
 * Kahurangi National Park
 * Abel Tasman National Park
 * Nelson Lakes National Park
 * Arthurs Pass National Park
 * Westland National Park
 * Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park
 * Mount Aspiring National Park
 * Fiordland National Park
 * Rakiura National Park

South Africa Conservation Areas and Parks
See List of conservation areas of South Africa Initial evaluation (April 3, 2006): 95 parks on list - 21 have at least a stub article, only 6 have an infobox. About 8 are stubs.

U.S. National Parks
I am working my way through the 58 U.S. National Parks articles. Please feel free to help. (Should probably standardize link text) Rmhermen 17:43, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

Using a criteria of designation of 75% or more of the park as wilderness, I have noted the parks which should have the brown background on the summary box instead of green (these are IUCN level Ib).

Minimally complete
(at least one representative picture, infobox box, links to official web site, order of magnitude)
 * Acadia National Park needs discussion on flora and fauna
 * Arches National Park completed, numerous relined links however
 * Badlands National Park
 * Big Bend National Park
 * Biscayne National Park could use expansion
 * Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park could use expansion
 * Bryce Canyon National Park Featured article
 * Canyonlands National Park excellent
 * Carlsbad Caverns National Park needs expansion
 * Capitol Reef National Park excellent
 * Channel Islands National Park not bad, maybe some more on wildlife
 * Congaree National Park could use expansion
 * Crater Lake National Park needs cleanup and expansion
 * Cuyahoga Valley National Park could use expansion
 * Death Valley National Park Featured article
 * Denali National Park and Preserve could use expansion
 * Dry Tortugas National Park okay but brief
 * Everglades National Park, (wilderness) needs expansion
 * Gates Of The Arctic National Park and Preserve needs expansion
 * Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve could use more detail
 * Glacier National Park Featured article
 * Grand Canyon National Park very brief text, needs major expansion
 * Grand Teton National Park
 * Great Basin National Park needs more detail
 * Great Sand Dunes National Park, (wilderness)
 * Great Smoky Mountains National Park
 * Guadalupe Mountains National Park
 * Haleakala National Park, (wilderness)
 * Hawaii Volcanoes National Park needs expansion
 * Hot Springs National Park
 * Isle Royale National Park, (wilderness)
 * Joshua Tree National Park
 * Katmai National Park and Preserve (wilderness)
 * Kenai Fjords National Park
 * Kings Canyon National Park (wilderness)
 * Kobuk Valley National Park needs expansion
 * Lake Clark National Park and Preserve (wilderness) needs expansion
 * Lassen Volcanic National Park (wilderness)
 * Mammoth Cave National Park
 * Manzanar National Historic Site is an FA candidate
 * Mesa Verde National Park
 * Mount Rainier National Park, (wilderness) needs more detail
 * National Park of American Samoa needs more detail
 * North Cascades National Park needs expansion
 * Olympic National Park (wilderness)
 * Petrified Forest National Park
 * Redwood National and State Parks Featured article
 * Rocky Mountain National Park needs expansion
 * Saguaro National Park expand
 * Sequoia National Park (wilderness) need more detail and image of sequoia tree
 * Shenandoah National Park
 * Theodore Roosevelt National Park
 * Virgin Islands National Park
 * Voyageurs National Park needs expansion
 * Wind Cave National Park
 * Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve (wilderness) needs expansion
 * Yellowstone National Park Featured article
 * Yosemite National Park (wilderness)
 * Zion National Park Featured article

U.S. National Forests
For complete listing see List of U.S. National Forests. Still some redlined articles, but becoming more completed. Article quality ranges from single sentence stubs to thoroughly detailed discussions. 2 forests have no articles - as of 14 February 2007

U.S. Wilderness areas
Though some work has been completed, there are hundreds of redlined links to vacant artilces in need of development See: List of U.S. Wilderness Areas. Approximately 40 articles are detailed and utilize images and the infobox appropriate for wilderness articles.
 * Note that the list article may not be complete. See Talk:List of U.S. Wilderness Areas for discussion of "missing" areas.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service areas
Over 250 written articles yet still hundreds of redlined links to vacant articles. See: List of National Wildlife Refuges. Several articles now utilize the infobox but we will need to go back to older articles and add it in to each one.

Sites of Scientific Interest
See User:MarcusBritish/SSSIs for details of SSSI lists still needing work. English Areas are all nearly complete, and plenty of opportunity to develop more into FLs. Cheers,  Ma &reg;&copy; usBr iti sh {chat} 10:13, 21 October 2012 (UTC)