Paanajärvi NP © Viktor
Gritsuk
Zoltan KUN, Executive DirectorPAN Parks Foundation
THE ECONOMICS OF WILDERNESSPES in Europe’s Wilderness Areas
Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
What we do
• PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s wilderness, the continent’s most undisturbed areas of nature
• the first European-wide organisation focusing on the protection of wilderness areas
Fulufjallet NP © Vitantonio Dell’Orto
NO extractive use such as:•hunting•fishing•mining•logging•grazing•grass cutting•road and building constructionis allowed in wilderness
How to define wilderness?
Wilderness Quality Index of Europe
• Based on GIS data sets (road density, population density, etc...)
• Management practice is not considered!
PAN Parks Wilderness Network
Fulufjället NP © Vitantonio Dell’Orto/exuviaphoto.com
Peneda-Geres NP © Marcos Veiga
Archipelago NP © Janne Görling
Archipelago NP © Janne Görling
Borjomi-Kharagauli NP © Konstantin Gabrichidze
Oulanka NP © Kimmo Salminen
Soomaa NP © Arne Ader
Borjomi-Kharagauli NP © Kote Gabrichidze
The Economics of Wilderness
Why dealing with the economics of wilderness?
• the EP report on wilderness Calls on the Commission and Member States to co-operate with local non-governmental organisations to promote the value of wilderness (point 6);
Insert the figure about PA Categories and relative naturalness
Insert Braat and Ten Brink figure about the inkage between land use and level of ecosystem services
Wilderness is not a priceless heritage for future generations!• Europeans are not valuing wilderness as much as they should!
Oulanka NP ©Michael Hennemann
The Economics of Wilderness
The Economics of Wilderness
Two examples• Oulanka National Park creating jobs• The valuation of Tatra, PL, and Slovensky raj SK National Parks
Oulanka NP ©Hannu Hautala
The Economics of Wilderness
Economic impact of Finnish National Parks through visitation• 85 M EUR / year• 1,100 man-year• visitor related income in Oulanka NP 14,7 M EUR
http://www.metla.fi/julkaisut/workingpapers/2010/mwp149.pdf
The Economics of Wilderness
Tatra and Slovensky raj National Park• One possible conclusion: Smaller park but better mgmt practice and more value
Rila NP © Nicolas Cegalerba
The Economics of Wilderness
Making wilderness areas financially viable means seizing opportunities of emerging markets for ecosystem services• Payments for Ecosystem Services
Archipelago NP © Heidi Arponen
To protect wilderness we need to difersify incomes
• payments for carbon offset• payments for water-related and nature disaster mitigation• payments for recreational services
The Economics of Wilderness
The Economics of Wilderness
Majella NP © Bruno D’Amicis
Several steps are suggested for PA managers• define the wilderness attributes and their services• define stakeholders benefitting from ES• quantifying revenue and externalities including cost of inaction
The Million Project
Majella NP ©MNP
Building partnerships with protected areas
• Making a commitment to resolve a major challenge
• Improving wilderness management in partner protected areas
Archipelago NP © Seppo Keränen
The Million Project
To ensure guaranteed protection of 1 million hectares of wilderness
in Europe by 2015
A conservation partnerships
Majella NP © Bruno D’Amicis
• Wilderness partners: areas with wilderness committed to wilderness protection (no size criteria)
• Certified PAN Parks: branded parks with min. 10,000 ha of wilderness(best of Europe’s wilderness)
©iStock/Graeme Purdy
327,000 ha of wilderness
Wilderness momentum
• European Parliament’s special report on wilderness
• European Commission- ‘Agenda for Wilderness’
• Wilderness in Biodiversity Strategy
What we have achieved so far
Annual land take in Europe between2000-2006 was over 111,000 ha/year
The size equal to Crete was covered by
concrete in 7 years (2000-
2006)
The size equal to Crete was covered by
concrete in 7 years (2000-
2006)
Our goal: 5% of Europe must be
wilderness
Our goal: 5% of Europe must be
wilderness
1% (CR + BiH) is often quoted as
existing wilderness in
Europe
1% (CR + BiH) is often quoted as
existing wilderness in
Europe
4% of Europe is covered by
artificial surface in 2006 (annual
increase of 3,4%)
4% of Europe is covered by
artificial surface in 2006 (annual
increase of 3,4%)
If continues with the current
trend, we will have 5%
artificial surface by
2017
The Million Project aims to protect the size of
Cyprus!
The Million Project aims to protect the size of
Cyprus!
Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk
We can protect the last pieces of Europe’s wilderness together for future generations!
Join us in The Million Project!
PAN Parks works to protect
Europe’s wilderness, the
continent’s most undisturbed
areas of nature
www.panparks.org
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