Category V protected areas – Protected Landscapes and Seascapes – are defined by IUCN as areas “of land, with coasts and seas as appropriate, where the interaction of people and nature over time has produced an area of distinct character with significant aesthetic, ecological and/or cultural value, and often with high biological diversity. Safeguarding the integrity of this traditional interaction is vital to the protection, maintenance and evolution of such areas” (IUCN 1994)