PAN Parks is a European organization that works to protect wilderness areas on the continent. It focuses on protecting undisturbed natural areas and applying sustainable tourism practices. PAN Parks advocates for stronger wilderness protection policies, supports conservation projects for threatened species and protected areas, and aims to create a network of wilderness preservation areas across Europe to conserve 5% of the continent's land as wilderness. Its vision is to gain support from 1 million people and find sufficient funding to advance its field projects and advocacy work.

1. Introduction to
PAN Parks,
the leading European wilderness protection organisation
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2. What is PAN Parks?
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3. What is PAN Parks?
PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s wilderness, the
continent’s most undisturbed areas of nature.
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The only European-wide organisation focusing on
the protection of wilderness areas.

4. What is PAN Parks?
A charity founded in 1999 by WWF and Molecaten (a
Dutch leisure company) registered in the Netherlands
and currently having its premises in Hungary.
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What is PAN Parks?
Focuses its work of Europe’s wilderness and applies
an integrated approach to mobilise societal support
for wilderness protection through working with local
entrepreneurs and sustainable tourism companies.

6. What we do?
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What we do?
Wilderness advocacy in order to improve legislative
framework for wilderness protection

8. What we do?
Supporting field projects on three major field
1. Enhancing protection of keystone species
2. Increasing management effectiveness of protected
areas
3. Improving interpretation service for visitors
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9. What we do?
Looking into the opportunities of land purchase or
lease in order to secure more land for wilderness, and
Restoring wilderness attributes for enlarging the size
of core wilderness areas (eg. Wild Nephin in Ireland)
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10. Creating a European-wide network of wilderness
areas as best practice examples
The European Wilderness Preservation System
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What we do?

11. The European Wilderness Preservation
System
Updated map at
http://www.panparks.org/what-we-do/the-million-project/wilderness-preservation-system

12. Our vision
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13. After reaching the 1 million hectares,
Scale up wilderness protection in Europe and protect
5% of the continent as wilderness!
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Our vision

14. Mobilise the support of 1 million people for
enhancing wilderness protection in Europe
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Our vision

15. Mobilise enough funding to implement
1. field projects across our network and
2. macro-level wilderness advocacy
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Our vision

16. PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s
wilderness, the continent’s most
undisturbed areas of nature
www.panparks.org

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