 Approximately 22% of Terceira's land area, or , was integrated into the nature park, in order to create conditions for a coherent and integrated management plan.The park is guided by the principals of conservation that includes delimited spaces for nature, humans landscape use and natural resources exploitation, based on scientific criteria/guidelines established for the classification of environments at the international, national, regional and local levels.The Terceira Nature Park is actually a dispersed reserve that encompasses several individual areas of protection.