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In Europe, the first national parks were a set of nine parks in Sweden in 1909, followed by the Swiss National Park in 1914. Africa's first national park was established in 1925 when Albert I of Belgium designated an area of what is now Democratic Republic of Congo centred on the Virunga Mountains as the Albert National Park (since renamed ...
Yellowstone National Park in the United States was the first national park in the world. [1] [2] This is a list of the number of national parks per nation, as defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Nearly 100 countries around the world have lands classified as a national park by this definition.
The first international nature park in Europe, the present-day Pieniny National Park was founded jointly by Poland and Slovakia in 1932. [1]European Nature Parks: Cross-border plans and projects are carried out under the Europarc umbrella.
Guiana Amazonian Park (French: Parc amazonien de Guyane) is the largest national park of France, aiming at protecting part of the Amazonian forest located in French Guiana which covers 41% of the region. It is the largest park in France as well as the largest park in the European Union [1] and one of the largest national parks in the world.
A Kent safari park is the first in Europe where visitors can meet and even feed three species of rhino in one visit. Port Lympne Reserve near Hythe welcomed an Indian rhino, a five-year-old male ...
California has some of the country's best-known national parks, including Yosemite and Death Valley. But take a look at the latest addition: Pinnacles National Park, established in 2013. Visitors ...
National and regional parks in Italy. The national parks of Italy are protected natural areas terrestrial, marine, fluvial or lacustrine, which contain one or more intact ecosystems (or only partially altered by anthropic interventions) and/or one or more physical, geological, geomorphological, biological formations of national and international interest, for naturalistic, scientific, cultural ...