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Our highlights from 2024
2024 was a big year for us, not only did we celebrate 75 years of National Parks we also had many campaign successes and have set in motion many more for 2025
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The power of young people in nature recovery
Layla and Molly from Young Wilders on the importance of youth involvement in nature recovery. Read their speech from Natural England's Annual Reception.
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Imagining the next 75 years of National Parks
75 years on from the creation of National Parks, how can we embody the spirit of its creation to tackle the fresh challenges our Protected Landscapes face?
3 days, 19 young people and endless passion!
Zoe Hughes, one of our Future Leaders Couse participants, shares her experiences from the weekend, what she learned and her hopes for the future
It’s time to put nature first in our National Parks
As world leaders meet to discuss the global biodiversity crisis, our Chief Executive, Dr Rose O’Neill, argues it’s time to prioritise nature.
Five wonders of National Parks
Celebrate the variety of the 13 National Parks in England and Wales with a taster of their wonders across, land, water, sea, sky and subterranean habitats.
Can public ownership of land help save nature in our National Parks?
With only 6% of land managed effectively for nature in National Parks we need big changes to get nature recovery back on track
Depleting nature, shattering tranquillity – off-roading on green lanes in Protected Landscapes
Fritz Groothues of the Lake District Green Lanes Alliance examines the threat off-road 4x4s and motor bikes pose to the the Lake District National Park
What Nature Can Teach Us
We look at how outdoor education experiences benefit our wellbeing and how all children can have equal opportunities to learn outdoors.
Grasslands – national treasures
Jo Riggall, Grassland Advocacy Officer at Plantlife, on why our species-rich grasslands are national treasures of landscape, nature, and heritage and why they deserve to be valued.
From A4 to For All – 30 years of the Countryside Jobs Service
Kerryn Humphreys, Editor of CJS, takes us back 30 years for a potted history of the Countryside Jobs Service
Safeguarding a great success of our planning system
If Labour's ambitions are to be achieved, they must take full account of the additional protections for National Parks and National Landscape already in place.
Putting the ‘national’ back into England’s National Parks
On the 75th anniversary of their founding legislation, it’s time for the government to reprise England’s National Parks so they can realise their true potential.