Association of National Park Authorities
The Association of National Park Authorities is a body that exists to provide the National Park Authorities of England, Wales and Scotland with a single voice when dealing with government and its agencies. It also provides a focus for collaborative working and the sharing of best practice across the parks, attempts to increase public understanding of the statutory purposes for which National Parks exist in the UK, and promotes them as models for sustainable development.
Its small staff is managed by an Executive Committee made up of the Chairs of the individual National Park Authorities.
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[edit] Mosaic
Mosaic is a partnership between CNP, the Youth Hostels Association and all nine English National Parks. Launch on 30 July with sponsor Ben Fogle in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the aim is to build links between ethnic minorities and National Parks. Mosaic builds on previous work in this area and complements the Government’s Outdoors for All programme. Targeting 20 cities nationally, ultimately the aim is to ensure an additional 4,000 ethnic minority visitors have direct experience of national parks and reach some 40,000 people of ethnic minority communities with positive messages about trying the outdoors.[1]
[edit] ANPA members
There are 10 National Parks in England, 3 in Wales and 2 in Scotland, they are:
- England: Dartmoor, Exmoor, Lake District, New Forest, Northumberland, North York Moors, Peak District, South Downs, Yorkshire Dales and The Broads which has equivalent status to a National Park.
- Wales: Brecon Beacons, Pembrokeshire Coast and Snowdonia
- Scotland: Cairngorms and Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
