41. PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s wilderness, the continent’s most undisturbed areas of nature http://panparks.org http://facebook.com/panparks http://panparks.org/user/register http://linkedin.com/panparksgroup http://youtube.com/user/PANParks http://storiesofwilderness.panparks.org http://mymillionproject.ning.com [email_address]
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However, there is not much left - the remaining pieces of wilderness are often threatened on a daily basis
Text same as slide text Raise the question whether there is wilderness in Europe at all The answer is yes
When we say undisturbed what do we mean?
... the essential thing, however, is that ...
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We have to work with already protected improve management effectiveness, involve local communities in the management (visitor management), increase the public support (awareness raising through making visitation possible -> tourism model) and create new funding opportunities for protection (in the current economic decline there are budget cuts and the gap might be filled through tourism related incomes)
We create network: 1.motivate parks to work for reaching our high standards (strict criteria) and thus they improve their managament 2. This way there are areas that serve as best practice examples for other parks – spin-off effect (conferences, spreading knowledge on this)
No history of wilderness protection so basically we need to pave the way for the wilderness movement including raising support in Brussels as wilderness management could become an essential tool in biodiversity protection (EU targets, strategies) Of course research is always essential but we are lacking studies/research on wilderness in Europe – facilitating this is another vital task (Think-Tank, institute cooperation)
Communications is an essential part of our work to raise professional and public support for wilderness protection. Creating positive protection of wilderness could be the basis of successful protection In order to do this we use the parks of the network as examples of the best of Europe’s wilderness ‘ You can go there and experience wilderness yourself, earn about it in the field’
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What is actually a PAN Park? Wilderness The park as a whole has excellent managemnet techniques (2nd bulletpoint)
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