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Introduction to
PAN Parks,the leading European wilderness protection
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What is PAN Parks?
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What is PAN Parks?
PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s wilderness, the continent’s most undisturbed areas of nature.
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The only European-wide organisation focusing on the protection of wilderness areas.
What is PAN Parks?
A charity founded in 1999 by WWF and Molecaten (a Dutch leisure company) registered in the Netherlands and currently having its premises in Hungary.
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What is PAN Parks?
Focuses its work of Europe’s wilderness and applies an integrated approach to mobilise societal support for wilderness protection through working with local entrepreneurs and sustainable tourism companies.
What we do?
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What we do?
Wilderness advocacy in order to improve legislative framework for wilderness protection
What we do?
Supporting field projects on three major field1. Enhancing protection of keystone species2. Increasing management effectiveness of
protected areas3. Improving interpretation service for visitors
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What we do?
Looking into the opportunities of land purchase or lease in order to secure more land for wilderness, andRestoring wilderness attributes for enlarging the size of core wilderness areas (eg. Wild Nephin in Ireland)
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Creating a European-wide network of wilderness areas as best practice examplesThe European Wilderness Preservation System
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What we do?
The European Wilderness Preservation System
Updated map athttp://www.panparks.org/what-we-do/the-million-project/wilderness-preservation-system
Our vision
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After reaching the 1 million hectares,Scale up wilderness protection in Europe and protect 5% of the continent as wilderness!
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Mobilise the support of 1 million people for enhancing wilderness protection in Europe
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Mobilise enough funding to implement1. field projects across our network and2. macro-level wilderness advocacy
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Our vision
PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s
wilderness, the continent’s most
undisturbed areas of nature
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