Wonderful Earth - National Parks in Ukraine

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Azov-Syvash National Park
Bug Fort National Park ("Bug Hard")
Carpathian National Nature Park ("Carpathian")
Charming Harbor National Park ("Magic Harbor")
Cheremosh National Park
Derman-Ostroh National Park
Desna-Stara Huta National Park
Double-River National Park
Dzharylhach National Park
Gomolsha Forests National Park
Great Meadow National Park ("Great Meadow")
Halych National Park ("Galician")
Hetman National Park
Holosiivskyi National Nature Park
Homolsha Forrest National Park ("Homolsha Forests")
Hutsulshchyna National Park
Ichnya National Park
Khotyn National Park
Kr?m?n?ts Mountains National Park ("Kremenets Mountains")
Lower Dniester National Park ("Lower Dnister")
Lower Sula National Park
Mezyn National Park
Northern P?d?llya National Park ("North Podillya")
Podillya Hills National Park
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Pyryatyn National Park
Saint Mountains National Park ("Holy Mountains")
Shatsky National Park
Siveria-Donets National Park
Sk?le B?skyds National Park ("Skole Beskids")
Sloboda Ukraine National Park ("Sloboda Ukraine")
Synevir National Park
Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park
Ukraine Littoral Azov National Park
Uzh National Park
Verkhovyna National Park
Vyzhnytsia National Nature Park
White Coast of Svyatoslav National Park
White Lake National Park ("White Lake")
Yavorivskyi National Park
Zalissya National Park
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A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is 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 and as a symbol of national pride.
An international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and its World Commission on
Protected Areas, has defined "National Park" as its Category II type of protected areas.
While this type of national park had been proposed previously, the United States established the first "public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and 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 in practice and is widely held to be the first and oldest national park in the world. Some would say that the first official
national park to be designated as such at its creation was Mackinac Island, legislated in 1875. Australia's Royal
National Park, established in 1879, was the world's third official national park. In 1895 ownership of Mackinac Island was transferred to the State of Michigan as a state park and national park status was consequently lost. As a result Australia's Royal National Park is by some considerations the second oldest national park now in existence.
The largest national park in the world meeting the IUCN definition is the Northeast Greenland National Park, which was established in 1974. According to the IUCN, 6,555 national parks worldwide met its criteria in 2006. IUCN is still discussing the parameters of defining a national park.
National parks are almost always open to visitors. Most national parks provide outdoor recreation and camping opportunities as well as classes designed to educate the public on the importance of conservation and the natural wonders of the land in which the national park is located.
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