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African Parks Network

The African Parks Network is founded in 2000 as a not-for-profit organisation by a group of experienced conservationists (Mavuso Msimang, Dr Anthony Hall-Martin, Michael Eustace, Peter Fearnhead and late Paul Fentener van Vlissingen), who were concerned about the decline of many of Africa’s national parks.

Akiba Dam

The Akiba Dam Reservoir is a popular attraction for canoeing and camping, due to its proximity to downtown Hamamatsu as well as the Akihasan Hongū Akiha Jinja, and it is located within the boundaries of the Tenryū-Okumikawa Quasi-National Park.

Aoyama Plateau Wind Farm

The Aoyama Plateau Wind Farm (青山高原ウインドファーム), located amongst the Aoyama Plateau in the Muroo-Akame-Aoyama Quasi-National Park, Japan, is one of the largest wind farms in Honshū.

Cahuita National Park

Cahuita National Park is a 2,711-acre (1,097-ha) national park in the Caribbean La Amistad Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the southern Caribbean coast in Limón Province, connected to the town of Cahuita.

California State Route 139

This would be part of a road connecting Reno, Nevada and Klamath Falls east of the Sierra Nevada, which would attract heavy traffic and improve access to Crater Lake and Lassen Volcanic National Parks.

Charles P. Pray

In 2011, Pray jumped into the debate on the proposed creation of a national park on land owned by Roxanne Quimby which was part of the Senate district Pray represented.

Cheval de frise

Similar devices planned by Ben Franklin were used in the Delaware River near Philadelphia, in between Fort Mifflin and Fort Mercer.

Froggatt Edge

Froggatt Edge is a gritstone escarpment in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park, in Derbyshire, England and situated in close proximity to the villages of Froggatt, Calver, Curbar, Baslow and Grindleford.

Jeanette Kawas National Park

Jeanette Kawas National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Jeannette Kawas) is a national park located in the municipality of Tela, on the northern Caribbean coast of the Atlántida department of Honduras.

Jevremovac

Also, arboretum was very neglected for decades and only recently began its partial renovation and beautification but Jevremovac soon became popular again and today, with 60,000 visitors a year, it is the second most visited natural monument in Serbia, after the mountain and national park Kopaonik.

Kagera Region

Kagera Region hosts Biharamulo, Burigi, Ibanda and Rumanyika and Orugundu Game reserves, a National Park situated on Rubondo Island and a wildlife sanctuary based on Saa Nane Island.

Lake of Ledinci

In late 1990s and early 2000s, exploitation rights on the lake were under a multilateral dispute by the local community, City of Novi Sad, the mining company "Alas" registered in Rakovac, which owned the quarry exploitation rights, and the public company guiding the National park of Fruška gora.

Lobéké National Park

Lobéké National Park (alternate: Lake Lobake National Park) is a national park of southeastern Cameroon within the Moloundou Arrondisement of East Province.

Lusenga Plain National Park

Lusenga Plain National Park is a national park in the Kawambwa District, Northern Province of Zambia, to the east of Lake Mweru.

Oskarshamn Municipality

The Blå Jungfrun is a small island just outside the coast, and is classified as a National Park.

Silver Falls State Park

In January 2008, during the 2008 supplemental legislative session, Fred Girod of the Oregon House of Representatives sought federal designation of the area as a national park via a house joint memorial to the United States Congress, but the bill died in committee.

Skørping

Rebild Bakker ("Rebild Hills") is a national park consisting of heather-covered hills, located in the municipality near the village of Rebild.

Tapantí National Park

Tapantí National Park, sometimes called Orosí National Park, is a National Park in the Pacific La Amistad Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the edge of the Talamanca Range, near Cartago.

Waved Albatross

The population of Waved Albatrosses on the Galápagos is protected by national park personnel, and the island is also categorized as a World Heritage Site.

Zamantı River

A 500 km² area along the river basin corresponds to Aladağlar National Park, mostly covered in forests and extending within Yahyalı (Kayseri Province), Çamardı (Niğde Province) and Aladağ (Adana Province) districts.


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Abisko

The 425 kilometer-long Kungsleden hiking trail, which follows the Scandinavian mountain range, starts (or ends) at the Abisko Turiststation (consisting of a railway station of the same name and the Abisko Youth Hostel) (approx. 4 km west of the village itself) and follows through the national park.

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program, a United States federal government program under the purview of the National Park Service

Alberta Mountain forests

Large areas of natural habitat remain in Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Kakwa Wildlands, Willmore Wilderness Park, Bugaboo Provincial Park and Ghost River Wilderness Area.

Apgar

Apgar Village, a small village in Glacier National Park near West Glacier, Montana

Batán Grande Reserved Zone

Batán Grande is a national park 40 km north east of Chiclayo, in Pitipo District, Ferreñafe Province, of Lambayeque Region of Peru.

Battle of Beaver Dams

The move may have been inspired by the creation, earlier that year, of Fort Howe National Park in New Brunswick—the first site admitted to the national park system on the basis of its historical significance.

Beerwah

Beerwah, Queensland - a small town on the hinterland Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, at the side of the Glass House Mountains National Park

Beverley Nambozo

Many travel articles on visits to Mexico, Lamu, Kenya, Egypt, Lake Mburo National Park, Kingfisher Resort, Queen Elizabeth National Park, and other places have been published in UGPulse and the New Vision newspaper.

Black Mountain National Park

Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park (formerly Black Mountains National Park), protected area in central Bhutan

Bulabog Putian National Park

Bulabog Putian National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in the municipalities of Dingle and San Enrique, Iloilo in Panay Island.

Colossal Cave

Colossal Cave Adventure, a 1976 computer game based on Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky

Cross River National Park

The Cross River National Park is a national park of Nigeria, located in Cross River State, Nigeria.

Crotoniidae

Holonothrus artus Olszanowski, 1999 — Aisen, Queulat National Park, Puerto Cisnes area: Chile; Melanesia

Crowdy

Crowdy Bay National Park is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 271 km northeast of Sydney.

Gauja National Park

The major part of the national park and the dominant is the old valley of the Gauja River.

Glacier National Park Fund

The Glacier National Park Fund (established in 1999), is an organization whose main goal is to raise money to support the demands of the Glacier National Park, located in West Glacier, Montana.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

The latest acquisition by the National Park Service is Mori Point, a small parcel of land on the Pacifica coast.

Grampians National Park

The Brambuk National Park and Cultural Centre in Halls Gap is owned and managed by Jardwadjali and Djab Wurrung people from five Aboriginal communities with historic links to the Gariwerd-Grampians ranges and the surrounding plains.

Great Baikal Trail

These projects often take place in protected areas of the lake, such as Pribaikalsky National Park, Zabaikalsky National Park, Baikal Nature Reserve, Barguzin Nature Reserve, and many more areas.

Hancock County, Maine

Hancock County is home to Acadia National Park (the only national park in Maine or the New England region, excluding the national sea shore on Cape Cod) and Cadillac Mountain (the highest point in Maine's coastal region).

Happy Valley, Tennessee

Happy Valley, Blount County, Tennessee, unincorporated community near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, associated with ZIP code 37878

Hot Springs National Park

Twelve years later, in 1832, the 22nd United States Congress formed the national reservation, granting federal protection of the thermal waters and giving Hot Springs the honor of being the first “national park” to be designated for such government protection.

Kangaroo Island bushfires

The D'Estrees Bay fire in Cape Gantheaume Conservation Park was contained by 12 December 2007, while intense fires in the west, which included the protected areas of Flinders Chase National Park and Ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area, were more difficult to extinguish.

Kelimutu National Park

Some endagered plant species are protected in this national park, such as: Toona spp.

Kinmen National Park

Kinmen National Park includes five areas: Taiwu Mountain, Kuningtou, Gugang, Mashan Hill and Lieyu.

Kui Buri

Kui Buri National Park, a national park of Thailand, located in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province

Lee's Ferry

Scenes from the movie Into the Wild (based on the book by Jon Krakauer) were shot on location at the Lee's Ferry National Park Service Station, which featured actors Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless and Steven Wiig as the Lee's Ferry Ranger, Steve Koehler.

Libanus

Libanus, Powys, a village in the Brecon Beacons National Park, in the county of Powys, Wales, United Kingdom

Loango National Park

It protects diverse coastal habitat, including part of the 220 km² Iguéla Lagoon, the only significant example of a typical western African lagoon system that is protected within a national park.

Niumi National Park

The Gambia declared its portion of the Delta as a national park in 1986, comprising the southern part of the coastal wetlands and mangroves of the Saloum Delta.

North Rim Road, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

The North Rim Road, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, near Crawford, Colorado was built during 1933-38.

North York Moors

Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Duke of Burgundy Fritillary, Marbled White, Dingy Skipper and Grayling are just some of species that inhabit the national park.

Northumberland National Park

The Northumberland National Park covers a large area of Western Northumberland and borders the English county of Cumbria and the Scottish county of The Scottish borders.

Opfermoor Vogtei

A display on the early history of the Hainich region based primarily on discoveries at the site is planned for the Hainich National Park near Kammerforst.

Paphos District

North-west of the District is the Akamas peninsula which contains a national park where the reproduction of the green sea turtle is a protected activity.

Philetus

Philetus Norris (1821-1885), superintendent of Yellowstone National Park

Rebild National Park

The founder of the Rebild National Park, was Dr. Max Henius, a Danish-American who emigrated to the United States in 1881 and settled in Chicago.

Rungkunan National Park

Rungkunan National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in the municipalities of Ditsaan-Ramain and Tagoloan II in Lanao del Sur, some 10 kilometers east-south-east of the provincial capital Marawi.

Saisy

To the southwest, 20 minutes along the D973 from the commune of Saisy and the gateway to the Morvan National Park is the city of Autun.

Sussex Downs Conservation Board

In March 2010 the status of the AONB was revoked and the management of the Sussex Downs AONB was merged with the East Hampshire AONB under the South Downs Joint Committee pending the formation of a national park authority.

T. vermicularis

Thamnolia vermicularis, a fungus species associated in lichens in the genus Thamnolia found in high parts of Namadgi National Park in the Australian Capital Territory and Severnaya Zemlya

Tanjung Puting

Tanjung Puting National Park is a national park in Indonesia located in the southeast part of West Kotawaringin Regency in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan (Central Borneo).

Tarsar Lake

The basin of Tarsar and the adjoining Dachigam National Park constitute one of the most important habitats of the Kashmir stag (hangul), ibex, musk deer, snow leopard, Himalayan brown bear and in the higher reaches, the golden marmot.

Tōyako

Lake Tōya, known as "Tōyako" in Japanese, a volcanic caldera lake in Shikotsu-Toya National Park, Abuta District, Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan

Una National Park

Protection zone of the National Park stretches on the western side from the source of the Krka creek and its course to the confluence with the Una on the state border of Bosnia and Herzegovina with Croatia from where park border follows the Una and state border to the town of Martin Brod and confluence with the Unac.

Voyageurs National Park Association

Voyageurs National Park Association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that works to protect and promote the natural, recreational, and historical resources of Voyageurs National Park.

Wildlife Alliance

CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° series, Planet in Peril, features Wildlife Alliance programs in Thailand and Cambodia, including Care for Rescued Wildlife, Bokor National Park, and efforts to stop the illegal wildlife trade in Asia.

Wood bison

These captive herds are particularly important for conservation and recovery purposes, because the larger free-ranging herds in and around Wood Buffalo National Park were infected with bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis after 7,000 plains bison (Bison bison bison) were trans-shipped by barge from Buffalo National Park near Wainwright, Alberta in the 1920s.

Xuân Thủy National Park

According to statistic data of the Giao Thủy District People's Committee from the year 2005, there are 47.123 inhabitants living in the five Buffer Zone Communes (Giao Thien, Giao An, Giao Lac, Giao Xuan and Giao Hai) belonging to the National Park.

According to the National Park, there have been written more than 10 PhD theses, tens of master and hundreds of research papers by students from over 30 Vietnamese universities.