PAN Parks

PAN Parks ensures guaranteed protection for Europe’s wildernesses

Wilderness areas are the last truly wild places left on our planet. They are safeguarded from development and provide home to plants and animals that are able follow their own rhythms. But Europe’s wilderness is under threat. In America and Africa, wilderness is recognised and protected by law, but wilderness conservation in Europe has been largely ignored. Unless we act now, Europe will lose its wilderness.

PAN Parks, the European wilderness protection organization, works for the protection, greater understanding and appreciation of Europe’s wilderness areas.  Its goal is to ensure guaranteed protection of 1 million hectares of wilderness in Europe by 2015, so these rare and beautiful places will always be here to enjoy.

Through its efforts for wilderness protection PAN Parks Foundation

  • has successfully safeguarded 340,000 hectares from industrial development, hunting and logging
  • enlarges the size of untouched areas in Europe providing safe refuge for diverse wildlife
  • initiates a European wilderness movement that will also contribute to bringing wilderness among the mainstream conservation issues
  • represents the cause of wilderness protection on a European level and by creating a common voice of wilderness helps influence policy making
  • has already ensured the European Parliament’s recognition of the issue of wilderness
  • increases community involvement and understanding of wilderness values on a local level
  • helps prevent unsustainable development projects in order to minimise damages to wilderness values.

PAN Parks Foundation, a Europe-wide organization focusing on the protection of the last remaining wildernesses on our continent, in co-operation with local and international NGOs, protected area managers, local communities and the European public, works to bring about fundamental changes in public attitude towards wilderness by broadening people’s views on and educating them about the various benefits of wilderness.

For more information please visit www.panparks.org

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