Table 5.1 provides an overview of the objectives and activities allowed for each category. About two-thirds of the area under protection lies within sustainable use categories (Figure 5.1). This results from several factors, including the higher political and social acceptability of sustainable use areas, as they impose fewer restrictions on land and resource use, respect of traditional communities’ rights and civil society movements in defence of these rights, and the government objective of stimulating sustainable timber logging in national forests (Verissimo et al., The Brazilian example of extractive reserves has contributed to shaping the international classification of protected areas (Table 5.1). Between 2003 and 2008, it accounted for more than 70% of the world’s new terrestrial area placed under protection (Jenkins and Joppa, 2009).