Paanajärvi NP © Viktor Gritsuk Zoltan Kun, Executive Director PAN Parks Foundation PROTECTING EUROPE’S WILDERNESS From peaks to coast
Paanajärvi NP © Viktor
Gritsuk
Zoltan Kun, Executive DirectorPAN Parks Foundation
PROTECTING EUROPE’S WILDERNESSFrom peaks to coast
Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
Who we are
Photo: Simon Kertys© Bruno D’Amicis
PAN Parks is the only European-wide organisation focusing on the protection of wilderness areas
Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
What we do
PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s wilderness, the continent’s most undisturbed areas of nature
Archipelago NP © Seppo Keränen
The Million ProjectTo ensure guaranteed protection of 1 million hectares of wilderness in Europe by 2015
Our collective plan to lift wilderness protection in Europe
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Over 560 000 ha of wilderness by 8 October 2012
Wilderness momentum
• European Parliament’s special report on wilderness• European Commission- ‘Agenda for Wilderness’• Wilderness in Biodiversity Strategy
What we have achieved so far
European Wilderness Preservation System
Paanajärvi NP © PNP Archives
Conservation success
Kure Mountains National Park become the first wilderness in the PAN Parks Network in Turkey15 years of hard workLarge wilderness zone
Retezat NP © Mihai Moiceanu
Incredible biodiversity
Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
Beautiful unspoiled nature
Borjomi-Kharagauli NP © Kote Gabrichidze
Wilderness for people - people for wilderness
PAN Parks works to protect
Europe’s wilderness, the
continent’s most undisturbed
areas of nature
www.panparks.org