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Paanajärvi NP © Viktor
Gritsuk
Zoltan Kun, Executive DirectorPAN Parks Foundation
PROTECTING EUROPE’S WILDERNESSACROSS BOUNDARIES
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Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
Who we are
Photo: Simon Kertys© Bruno D’Amicis
PAN Parks is the only European-wide organisation focusing on the protection of wilderness areas
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Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
What we do
PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s wilderness, the continent’s most undisturbed areas of nature
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Archipelago NP © Seppo Keränen
The Million ProjectTo ensure guaranteed protection of 1 million hectares of wilderness in Europe by 2015
Our collective plan to lift wilderness protection in Europe
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©iStock/Graeme Purdy
Approximately 400 000 ha of wilderness by 9 July 2012
Wilderness momentum
• European Parliament’s special report on wilderness• European Commission- ‘Agenda for Wilderness’• Wilderness in Biodiversity Strategy
What we have achieved so far
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European Wilderness Preservation System
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Paanajärvi NP © PNP Archives
Conservation success
Oulanka / Paanajärvi become the first transboundary wilderness in the PAN Parks Network10 years of hard workLargest wilderness zone, but....
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Retezat NP © Mihai Moiceanu
The largest wilderness (PaNP)
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Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
Beautiful unspoiled nature
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Borjomi-Kharagauli NP © Kote Gabrichidze
Wilderness for people - people for wilderness
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PAN Parks works to protect
Europe’s wilderness, the
continent’s most undisturbed
areas of nature
www.panparks.org