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Dans une minorité de cas (par exemple, les pays de l'Union européenne), les ZICO sont reconnus et réglementés comme des zones protégées. Au Canada, ce n'est pas le cas. Ici, les ZICO bénéficient divers degrés de protection obligatoire s'ils se chevauchent avec un de nos officiellement désignées zones protégées (par exemple, les parcs nationaux et provinciaux, réserves fauniques, etc.) Le degré de protection est directement liée aux objectifs de gestion de nos aires protégées: certains sites interdire l'accès de l'homme, tandis que dans d'autres, les ressources naturelles peuvent être récoltés, etc.
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In a minority of cases (e.g., countries within the European Union), IBAs are recognized and regulated as protected areas. In Canada, this is not the case. Here, IBAs are afforded varying degrees of mandated protection if they overlap with one of our officially designated protected areas (e.g., National and Provincial Parks, Wildlife Reserves, etc.). The degree of protection is directly related to the management objectives of our protected areas: some sites prohibit human access, while in others, natural resources can be harvested, etc. While it is true that unprotected IBAs are potentially subject to a wider range of human activities, many activities can be compatible with bird use, including hunting, ranching, farming, and recreational pursuits. Birds and people can and do co-exist in many cases. This is particularly true in northern IBAs, where aboriginal communities rely on the landscape as traditional hunting grounds.
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