Bitten by Success: Conflicts Over Tourism Revenue and Natural Resources at Komodo National Park
The expanding popularity of Komodo National Park has engendered conflicts over access to its resources and tourism revenue.
The expanding popularity of Komodo National Park has engendered conflicts over access to its resources and tourism revenue.
The Bavarian Forest National Park, situated in South-Eastern Germany along the boundary with the Czech Republic, was established as the country’s first national park in October 1970.
Between 1981 and 1992 the Austrian federal states of Carinthia, Salzburg, and Tyrol established the Hohe Tauern National Park as Austria’s first national park in the Alpine mountain range of the same name.
Several national parks along the Wadden Sea coastline between the Netherlands and Germany have become part of the United Nations transboundary Wadden Sea World Heritage site.
The Galapagos Islands National Park, which was established in 1959, shelters Charles Darwin’s showcase of evolution and has become a testing field for international nature conservation concepts.
Situated on the Polish-Slovak border, the Tatra Mountains are protected by two neighboring National Parks. The history of the parks, which began in the 1880s, is deeply marked by the situation of these mountains on an imperial, and subsequently national, borderland.
Latin America’s first national park derived from private and public ideas and became a template for regional conservation.
In this Arcadia article, Claudia Leal shows how the early history of Colombia’s Tayrona National Park reveals the extent to which it has been shaped by state policies: evictions, restrictions to land use, and a fierce battle against tourism interests.
In the early 1920s one of the first European national parks was established in a densely populated area to foster both nature protection and economic growth.
Kamikōchi is the southern gateway to the Japan Alps, which in 1934 was one of the first areas in Japan to be designated a national park. This was the result of a rapid rise to prominence that followed a 1927 newspaper poll of Japanese landscapes.