European Park Day

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The European Day of Parks ( English European Day of Parks ) place annually since 1999 in and around the 24 May instead. The tasks and goals of the parks are to be brought closer to the general public through a wide variety of offers. In Germany, the term "parks" on this day of action refers to biosphere reserves , national parks and nature parks . The crier is the EUROPARC Federation , as the "umbrella organization of the national natural landscapes". The organizers of the action day, which has a different theme every year, are the park administrations, but it can also be independent groups or individuals.

Emergence

On May 24, 1909, nine national parks in Sweden were designated as the first protected areas of this type in Europe. Following the example of the US national parks, these large protected areas were thus largely protected by law against human interference such as road construction or the extraction of raw materials. Since then, other nature conservation categories for large protected areas have been added, in Germany the biosphere reserve (which can be designated differently in the federal states) and the nature park . In order to harmonize the protection status of the individual categories internationally, the IUCN guidelines for management categories of protected areas were adapted from EUROPARC to Europe in 1999 . The large protected areas are summarized by EUROPARC Germany under the umbrella term National Natural Landscapes . This commonality should also be achieved, for example, through an identical structure of the logos (circle with outer ring and filled inner circle, differentiation only through the color) and (since 1999) the European Park Day , which in Germany is often shortened to "Park Day" .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EUROPARC: Our History. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ EUROPARC: European Day of Parks. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .