this is the presentation given during the certification of Oulanka/Paanajärvi Transboundary PAN Parks in Kuusamo on 13 August 2012.

1. PROTECTING EUROPE’S
WILDERNESS
ACROSS BOUNDARIES
Zoltan Kun, Executive Director
PAN Parks Foundation
Paanajärvi NP © Viktor Gritsuk

2. Who we are
PAN Parks is the only European-wide organisation
focusing on the protection of wilderness areas
Photo: Simon Kertys
Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
© Bruno D’Amicis

3. What we do
PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s wilderness ,
the continent’s most undisturbed areas of nature
Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk

4. The Million Project
To ensure guaranteed protection of
1 million hectares of wilderness
in Europe by 2015
Our collective plan to lift wilderness protection in
Europe
Archipelago NP © Seppo Keränen

5. What we have achieved so far
Approximately 400 000 ha of
wilderness by 9 July 2012
Wilderness momentum
• European Parliament’s special
report on wilderness
• European Commission- ‘Agenda for
Wilderness’
• Wilderness in Biodiversity Strategy
©iStock/Graeme Purdy

6. European Wilderness Preservation System

7. Conservation success
Oulanka / Paanajärvi become the first
transboundary wilderness in the PAN Parks
Network
10 years of hard work
Largest wilderness zone, but....
Paanajärvi NP © PNP Archives

8. The largest wilderness
(PaNP)
Retezat NP © Mihai Moiceanu

9. Beautiful unspoiled nature
Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk

10. Wilderness for people - people for wilderness
Borjomi-Kharagauli NP © Kote Gabrichidze

11. PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s
wilderness, the continent’s most
undisturbed areas of nature
www.panparks.org