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In the 1950s, the Park boundaries were drawn to follow out of date administrative and road boundaries, a strange anomaly which cuts the beautiful Howgill Fells in two with half in and half outside of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

CNP and others have long considered the boundaries of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Park to be ‘unfinished business’ and have campaigned for them to be reviewed. We gave a hearty welcome to the news that Natural England would be consulting on whether the boundaries should be extended.

Take a look at our recent campaign actions:

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National Parks and AONBs are our finest landscapes. They hold the largest tracts of remaining semi-natural habitats, and thus they have huge potential to become core components of coherent and resilient ecological networks. 

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The red-tape challenge is a public consultation exercise aiming to reduce regulatory burdens on business. It is looking at every law and regulation in the land including ones designed to protect the environment.

We need your help to tell the government that laws to protect our precious green spaces such as National Parks must not be axed. If anything they should be toughened so that National Parks can survive the constant pressure that they face from a range of different threats.

Want to know what CNP is working on? Find out about our key campaigns and what we are doing to make a difference. 

Read our latest blog that welcomes the South Downs National Park and salutes the campaign that secured National Park status.

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There has been much debate on the future of the public forest estate in England. 

This has caused concern for CNP because one-third of the public forest estate (nearly 86,000 hectares) lies within National Parks. These forests provide a range of hugely important benefits for the millions of people who visit and live in these spectacular places.

CNP is contributing to the Independent Panel on the Future of Forests - due to report in April 2012. We want to ensure that:

Not ours but ours to look after - find out about the challenges and threats that all the National Parks face and how we can help.

Threats to National Parks

Did you know that despite their protection in law all thirteen members of the National Park family face serious threats?

As we celebrate our 75th anniversary we are working to raise awareness of the challenges for National Parks. These include: