Internationalism in the Heart of Africa? The Albert National Park / Virunga National Park
The Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is still partially influenced by imaginaries developed in the 1920s.
The Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is still partially influenced by imaginaries developed in the 1920s.
Striving to create a “South African Eden,” the Kruger National Park was established in 1926 under the leadership of warden James Stevenson-Hamilton. Since this time, the park has developed into one the greatest and most renowned game reserves in the world.
On 8 November 1935, Mexico’s president, Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940), established the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl National Park, the first of nearly forty national parks he would create within the next few years. By 1940, Mexico had more parks than any other country in the world.
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.
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.
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.
This article thinks differently about the belonging of rabbits in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia.
A neo-protectionist conservation plan proposes a private natural reserve in the Carpathians, promoting historically produced landscape as pristine nature and triggering growing discontent from local land users.
The Canadian government established the Wood Buffalo National Park in 1922 to protect a remnant herd of wood bison. The park has become North America’s biggest national park and is still home to the largest free-roaming herd of wood bison. However, the park’s wildlife has also been subject to some of the most intrusive and ill-conceived management interventions in Canadian history.