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did you know

Mount Fuji national park
is the most visited national park
in the world

 

Quiz Answers

 


There was a total net loss of hedges of 19,100 kms every year from 1990-93
due to removal and neglect

An area larger than Leicestershire (2,848 sq km) is taken up by roads

11,000 hectares of countryside a year are lost to urban development
(an area the size of Bristol)

Quarrying affects 1,000 sq. km
- an area almost three times the size of the Isle of Wight

Every day for the last 20 years 300 people have moved away from our major cities

An area of land twice the size of Birmingham
(590 sq km) is devoted to vehicle parking in the UK

An area the size of Berkshire (1259 sq km) would be lost to roads and parking by 2020 if current projections of traffic growth were accommodated


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National Parks  ~ did you Know

 
  • First National Park - Yellowstone in the USA, aim to protect unique and important landscapes from development.
  • In 1926 The Council for the Preservation of Rural England established.
  • John Dower published a report in April 1945 on National Parks in the England leading to:
  • The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949 recommends establishing National Parks   described as "extensive tracts of beautiful and wild countryside which would provide scope for open-air recreation"
  • In 1951 the first National Parks were established:

Lake District
Peak District
Snowdonia
Dartmoor

  • The statutory obligations of the National Park Authorities are:
  1. To preserve and enhance the natural beauty of the area.
  2. To promote public enjoyment and open-air recreation
  3. To look after the social and economic well being of the resident population.

 

 

Snowdon
Horseshoe
Snowdonia
National Park

more pictures of the mountains of
Snowdonia National Park
found here

 
9,200,000 visits are made to Snowdonia each year by car,
with only 800,000 visits by people using other forms of transport
this equals 92% by car 

in the peak district it is 95% by car !!

the ozone pollution in the Upper Derwent Valley is often higher than in central London !!
Kinder Scout in the Peaks in rare winter snow conditions.

 

 

Interestingly you find that different land owners
have different views on conservation.
Or more accurately Different needs from conservation

The share of land owners of four of the national parks in England and Wales is :

Lake
District

Peak
District

Snowdonia

Yorkshire
Dales

Private

58.9

72.3

69.9

96.2

Forestry Commission

5.9

0.5

15.8

0

Ministry of Defence

0.2

0.3

0

0.3

Water Companies

6.9

13

0.9

0.3

National Trust

24.2

9.6

8.9

2.5

English Nature

0

0.1

1.7

0.4

National Park Authority

3.9

4.2

1.2

0.1

Other

0

0

1.6

0.2

 

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