Sunday, 19 April 2009

South Downs finally beocmes a National Park

South Downs National Park


This beautiful area of Britain has been made a national park today. The new South Downs national park will spread across Sussex and Hampshire. A lo of the land within the new park was already protected from development because it was classed as an area of outstanding natural beauty. Today's decision makes the South Downs England's 9th national park, bringing the total of areas protected as national parks to 10, including the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads, which have equivalent status but are not quite national parks. Scotland has 2 national parks – Cairngorms and Loch Lomond. The BBC has a few pieces on this here too. There are some beautiful pictures also of this are here.

Year 11 it would be really useful to use this in a case study question or a question about how you would protect the environment in MEDCs in the managing resources section of your paper.

Mr. Still

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