Forty fab years with Campaign for National Parks
Campaigner and Campaign for National Park Trustee Kate Ashbrook reflects on 40 years of campaigning.
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All Party Parliamentary Group for National Parks – Access for All
Charlotte Ditchburn on her experience of the all party parliamentary group on access for all in National Parks
Ensuring our National Parks are better protected against damaging development
MPs will shortly be discussing important amendments to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, Ruth Bradshaw explains why these amendments are so vital.
Finding solutions to climate change – if not in National Parks, then where?
To coincide with COP27 Solutions Day, Andrew McCloy writes about how National Parks can tackle the climate crisis, but will fail without renewed Government support.
Decarbonisation Day – How National Parks can show leadership on climate change
Richard Leafe on the importance of National Parks in tackling the climate and nature emergencies.
National Park Societies take a stand against #AttackOnNature
The 12 National Park Societies of England and Wales signed a joint Declaration calling on their respective governments to give Protected Landscapes.
Review: “Fight for It Now – John Dower and the Struggle for National Parks in Britain” by David Wilkinson
Adrian Philips reviews David Wilkinson's new book on the incredible story of John Dower, a man who, more than any other, created our National Parks as we now know them.
Carrying on the Big Conversation
We ran a survey in March that nearly 10,000 people filled in to tell us what they think about National Parks. Our chief executive Fiona Howie carries on the conversation.
We don’t need a Moses but a movement
Kate Ashbrook, our trustee and the general secretary of the Open Spaces Society writes about our Radio 4 Appeal presented by Bill Bryson
Guardians of the night sky
With the launch of the CPRE’s new interactive dark skies maps, Emma Marrington, one of their senior rural policy campaigners explains the importance of night skies free from light pollution.