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Parks Canada Tests a Different Approach to Tenting to Entice New Campers

Submitted by Jim Burnett on November 30, 2009 - 3:52am
Tent camping was once a popular activity in parks, but most of today's visitors are more inclined to spend the night in a hotel or luxurious RV. Parks Canada hopes to entice more people to try tenting with a trial program that takes most of the roughing out of camping.

No Fishing with Hand Grenades in Afghanistan’s New National Park

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on July 21, 2009 - 3:01am
Implausible as it may seem, the government of war-torn Afghanistan recently established the country’s first national park. It’s Band-e-Amir, and it’s not what you might think.

Exporting "Rangering": Working To Help Nicaraguans Safeguard Rare Hawksbill Turtles

Submitted by Rick Smith on July 17, 2009 - 2:30am
Who would have figured the stir that a couple of turtles would generate? I was in Nicaragua in late June working with community rangers who are employees of a non-governmental organization known as Paso Pacífico. I was on a beach observing something I had never seen before, something that hardly anyone gets to witness these days. Two hawksbill turtles had come ashore to nest on the beach that Paso Pacífico’s rangers patrol.

International Park News: "Nappies" for Horses Spur Controversy in Irish National Park

Submitted by Jim Burnett on July 15, 2009 - 3:27am
Killarney National Park is the oldest national park in Ireland, and a popular tourist destination. In a controversy mimicking similar debates in U.S. parks, Killarney is currently the scene of controversy over a requirement that horse-drawn carts using the park be fitted with a "dung catcher device," referred to in some media reports as "nappies."

Will There Soon Be a Mount Obama Monument and National Park?

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on May 29, 2009 - 4:30am
The Lesser Antilles nation of Antigua and Barbuda wants to create a new national park focused on its highest peak, which will soon be renamed Mount Obama. Plans for the new park are sort of sketchy and iffy.

Why is Clear-cutting Allowed in Japan's Iconic Park, Daisetsuzan?

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on February 23, 2009 - 3:30am
What would you think if logging were permitted in Yellowstone National Park, or if a rock quarry were allowed in Yosemite National Park, or if uranium mining was under way in Grand Canyon National Park?

Thailand Struggles With Overcrowding Of National Parks

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on December 15, 2008 - 4:49am
While national park visitation concerns in the United States frequently revolve around visitor declines, in Thailand the parks are being overrun by tourists.

China Moves to Designate its First National Park

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on November 28, 2008 - 4:29am
More than a century after the establishment of Yellowstone National Park kicked off the world-wide national parks movement, China has designated its very first "national park."