😬 Europe's national parks are 'terrible', a top conservationist has said 'You can drive through a national park and you won't know that you've entered it, nor that you have left'
that national parks were meant to be “the gold standard for conservation”, but that in the UK and much of Europe they were not coming close to that level.
“The big challenge as an outsider, very much an outsider, is that countries need to go back into their books and scratch their heads and say: ‘What is our definition of a national park?’ They are very hard to clean up because there are villages inside national parks. But start that process. Right away. Or re-designate them and name some other areas.”In the Americas and elsewhere, national parks are usually large publicly owned wildernesses with little to no human settlement within them.
The UK is officially committed to the “30 by 30” pledge, which promises to designate 30 per cent of the planet’s land and oceans as protected areas by 2030. It was a key outcome of the Cop15 biodiversity summit last year. “I was just present when three hedgehogs were rewilding an area, just a few days ago. There are a lot of species that you can work on, even though historically, the land has been used for so long, and there are not a lot of big expansive wild territories here.”
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