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Five Special Areas of the Proposed Glyndŵr National Park
We’ve highlighted just a few of the sites that make the proposed new Glyndŵr National Park a unique and exciting place to visit.
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Remembering Angus Lunn MBE, former Chair
Angus Lunn, Chair of Campaign for National Parks for ten years, and more recently a Vice President, is remembered warmly by his former colleagues and friends.
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Our 2025 Highlights
While 2025 may have been a difficult year for nature, our supporters have enabled us to rise to the challenges and carve out some significant wins for 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.
From A4 to For All – 30 years of the Countryside Jobs Service
Kerryn Humphreys, Editor of CJS, takes us back 30 years for a potted history of the Countryside Jobs Service
Safeguarding a great success of our planning system
If Labour's ambitions are to be achieved, they must take full account of the additional protections for National Parks and National Landscape already in place.