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Peak District Mosaic: Championing National Parks for Everyone
The Championing National Parks for Everyone project from Peak District Mosaic is supporting diverse communities to access these beautiful green spaces.
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The views presented are the author's and not necessarily those of Campaign for National Parks. We are committed to encouraging an open debate about key issues affecting the National Parks. If you are a journalist with a general enquiry or would like to find out more about our campaigns, please email our Senior Communications Officer Harriet at HarrietG@cnp.org.uk
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Where history meets nature in the Yorkshire Dales
Sarah Whiteley, Senior Historic Environment Officer for the Yorkshire Dales National Park, explores the intersectionality of nature recovery and the historic environment
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What if we created a National Parks Trail together?
Daniel Raven-Ellison, founder and CEO of Slow Ways, a not-for-profit Community Interest Company, shares a vision for a National Parks Trail and how we can bring it to life.
An inspirational weekend
An inspirational weekend – fuelled by empowered people empowering people, Linn Wiberg reflects on her weekend
All about uplands
Rugged, windswept and wild, we’re exploring the history and present challenges facing the breathtaking uplands of our National Parks.
Commodification of the Countryside
Eben Muse pushes back on the financial barriers to nature and reminds us that access to the countryside should be a right, not a privilege.
3 days, 19 young people and endless passion!
Zoe Hughes, one of our Future Leaders Couse participants, shares her experiences from the weekend, what she learned and her hopes for the future
It’s time to put nature first in our National Parks
As world leaders meet to discuss the global biodiversity crisis, our Chief Executive, Dr Rose O’Neill, argues it’s time to prioritise nature.
Five wonders of National Parks
Celebrate the variety of the 13 National Parks in England and Wales with a taster of their wonders across, land, water, sea, sky and subterranean habitats.
Can public ownership of land help save nature in our National Parks?
With only 6% of land managed effectively for nature in National Parks we need big changes to get nature recovery back on track
Depleting nature, shattering tranquillity – off-roading on green lanes in Protected Landscapes
Fritz Groothues of the Lake District Green Lanes Alliance examines the threat off-road 4x4s and motor bikes pose to the the Lake District National Park
What Nature Can Teach Us
We look at how outdoor education experiences benefit our wellbeing and how all children can have equal opportunities to learn outdoors.
Grasslands – national treasures
Jo Riggall, Grassland Advocacy Officer at Plantlife, on why our species-rich grasslands are national treasures of landscape, nature, and heritage and why they deserve to be valued.