Wilderness area

The term total reserve is used in the categorization of protected areas in nature and landscape protection, to describe areas that are to be largely free of human influence and left to natural development. Usually, the protection rules for Total reserves correspond to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN) established requirements for protected areas in the categories Ia and b ( Strict Nature Reserve / Wilderness Area ).

Conservation Technically the expulsion of Total Reserves assigned to the process protection because in them changes are approved by natural processes and should not be maintained or achieved a certain state.

National regulations

Germany

With few exceptions, the term total reserve is not legally defined in Germany; it is used only in Saxony -Anhalt, Thuringia and in continuous current law of the German Democratic Republic. The protection regulations will be implemented according Instead, in the designation of an area as a whole total reserve or it can be used in the designation of part surfaces terms such as core zone, core area or natural development area. The identification of areas with largely excluding human influences is practiced in Germany (national park, nature reserve, biosphere reserve, nature park ) in almost every area-based reserve types.

In addition to the conservation law, the country's forest laws of the Länder know Total Reserves under names such as natural forest reserve, a natural forest or protected forest (Baden- Württemberg).

United States

In the United States total reserves are reported as a Wilderness Area.