National park

A national park is a natural park in ownership for conservation purposes, created as alive as protected by national governments. Often this is a a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of 'wild nature' for posterity in addition to as a symbol of national pride.

The United States defining the first "public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit as well as enjoyment of the people", Yellowstone National Park, in 1872. Although Yellowstone was not officially termed a "national park" in its establishing law, it was always termed such(a) in practice and is widely held to be the number one and oldest national park in the world. However, the Tobago main Ridge Forest Reserve in what is now Trinidad and Tobago; imposing in 1776, and the area surrounding Bogd Khan Uul Mountain Mongolia, 1778, which were restricted from cultivation in outline to protect surrounding farmland, are seen as the oldest legally protected areas.

An international organization, the protected areas. According to the IUCN, 6,555 national parks worldwide met its criteria in 2006. IUCN is still analyse the parameters of defining a national park.

National parks are near always open to visitors.

Criticisms

While national parks are often seen as positive environmental service, many authors defecate discussed the darker side of its history. National parks were created by individuals who felt that pristine, natural sections of shape should be category aside and preserved from urban development. In America, this movement came about during the Great American Frontier and were meant to be monuments to America’s true history. Yet the lands that were to be set aside and protected were already being inhabited by native communities, who were removed and set aside to realise ″pristine″ sites for public consumption. Critics claim that the removal of people from national parks enhanced the conception that nature can only be protected when humans do not survive within it, and that this leads to perpetuating the dichotomy between nature and humans also so-called as the nature–culture divide. They see creation of national parks as a form of eco-land grabbing. Others claim that travelling to national parks to appreciate nature there leads people tothe nature that exists around them every day. Some argue that tourism can actually negatively affect the areas that are being visited.