Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 88 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 798 National parks and nature reserves Global Resources Governance Matrix a result of those proposals provides information categorizing sites as privately owned and managed government owned and managed community owned and managed or comanaged. Because the terms national park and reserve were in use before the IUCN system was first implemented in 1978 many protected areas with such titles may have management goals that differ from those with the same IUCN designations. For example Yozgat Camligi National Park in Turkey is managed as a national monument. Snowdonia National Park in Wales and the United Kingdom is managed as a protected landscape seascape. The Wolong Nature Reserve in China is a strict nature reser ve established mainly for giant pandas. The Talamanca Cabécar Anthropological Reser ve in Costa Rica is managed primarily for protection of forest resources. Biodiversity may be protected under not only different but also multiple IUCN management designations. Australia s Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. In 1975 more than 98 percent of the reef was designated a marine protected area but fourteen bioregions were unprotected. Following conservation campaigns in 2003 the area under strict protection by national parks and reser ves was increased. Although most of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is now managed for sustainable use of the ecosystem the park is also managed for multiple uses that range from scientific research to recreation. Expanded Global Protection The United Nations may broaden biodiversity protection in accord with the conventions on World Heritage Sites the Man and the Biosphere Reserve Programme MAB and Ramsar Sites. In addition the World Database on Protected Areas maintains information on protected areas that includes these various classifications. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO World Heritage Program promotes the identification protection and preservation of .
