{
  "id": "iucn_protected_area_category",
  "name": "IUCN protected area management category",
  "status": "draft",
  "doc": "Code of the IUCN management category of a protected area, which groups sites by their main management objective: Ia strict nature reserve, Ib wilderness area, II national park, III natural monument or feature, IV habitat/species management area, V protected landscape/seascape, VI protected area with sustainable use of natural resources. National authorities assign it and the World Database on Protected Areas stores it in the IUCN_CAT field, where sites without a category have Not Reported, Not Applicable or Not Assigned; this pattern does not accept those values. The categories are not a ranking of importance.",
  "categories": [
    {
      "id": "environment",
      "name": "Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste)"
    },
    {
      "id": "geo",
      "name": "Geographic identifiers"
    }
  ],
  "langs": [
    {
      "id": "common",
      "name": "Common to most languages"
    }
  ],
  "is_pii": false,
  "classification": "categorical",
  "regexp": "^(?:Ia|Ib|II|III|IV|V|VI)$",
  "examples": [
    {
      "value": "Ia",
      "description": "Chatkal Biosphere State Reserve, Uzbekistan (WDPA 1761); Protected Planet"
    },
    {
      "value": "Ib",
      "description": "Richardson Lake Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Canada (WDPA 18696); Protected Planet"
    },
    {
      "value": "II",
      "description": "Harz National Park, Germany (WDPA 103142); Protected Planet"
    },
    {
      "value": "VI",
      "description": "Murray Lake Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Canada (WDPA 18691); Protected Planet"
    },
    {
      "value": "Not Reported",
      "valid": false,
      "description": "WDPA value for a site without a reported category, such as the Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area"
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    {
      "type": "doc",
      "url": "https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/PAG-021.pdf"
    },
    {
      "type": "doc",
      "url": "https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/resources/wdpa-manual"
    },
    {
      "type": "wikipedia",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_protected_area_categories"
    }
  ],
  "translations": {
    "ru": {
      "name": "Категория управления охраняемой территорией МСОП",
      "doc": "Код категории МСОП, которая группирует охраняемые территории по основной цели управления: Ia, Ib, II, III, IV, V, VI. Категорию присваивают национальные органы; в базе WDPA она хранится в поле IUCN_CAT."
    }
  },
  "type": "datatype"
}