A Campaign Update

It’s 12 months since we started campaigning for more National Parks in Scotland and support is growing fast

- Robert Wight

IT’S just a year since The Scots Magazine first called for more National Parks in Scotland.Significant progress has been made in that time.

We teamed up with the Scottish Campaign for National Parks (SCNP) and the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland to highlight their incredible work and we advanced what we believe are solid arguments outlining the environmental, economic and social benefits National Park status can confer on an area.

In basic terms, however, we believe National Parks to be an internationally recognised and respected concept and the simplest, most effective way of protecting our most cherished landscapes.

Roughly 100 countries around the world have embraced the National Park movement. Norway, for example, has 44 Parks. Closer to home, England has 10 and Wales, three.