The PAN Parks Team wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Certified PAN Park Bieszczady in Poland has made improvements in conservation and visitor management during 2004, and the park has developed a Sustainable Tourism Development Strategy (STDS) – stated verifiers who visited the Polish park for annual monitoring and verification.

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Read about the newly certified PAN Park: the Romanian Retezat, the latest field projects funded by PAN Parks, the relationship of tourism and conservation in American national parks and news from our partner parks in the recently published Winter issue of the PAN Parks Courier.

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Tatra National Park, which has just started dialogue with the PAN Parks Foundation and is preparing to sign the letter of intent for verification, suffered widespread damage after a powerful windstorm. Park officials are committed to restoring the park in a sustainable manner and are still interested in moving towards PAN Parks verification.

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SNP Natuurreizen has been successfuly verified as the first international tourism PAN Parks partner.

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Uncontrolled tourism is now one of the greatest dangers to the natural world in the Mediterranean region as its protected areas are faring poorly in leading visitors around sensitive sectors and seem less informed about the impact tourists can have on nature than other parks in the rest of Europe. This is the main conclusion of a new study commissioned by the WWF-funded PAN Parks Foundation which has been presented at its annual Europe's Wilderness Days conference in Monti Sibillini National Park, Umbria, Italy on 9 October.

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Following the visit of a Swedish delegation to Hungary and as part of the Hungarian-Swedish exchange program a Hungarian delegation recently visited Fulufjället National Park, Sweden.

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Press release

The first PAN (Protected Area Network) Parks Accommodation near Fulufjället National Park, Sweden will be officially opened on 24 September, 2004. This is an occasion to celebrate the creation of an innovative new financial mechanism for nature protection as PAN Parks Accommodation offers corporate and private investors the opportunity to help protect and develop Europe’s wilderness areas.

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A Swedish delegation from the region of PAN Park Fulufjället visited Duna-Drava National Park in Hungary on 25-28 August in frame of the Swedish-Hungarian Year 2004.

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The audit of PAN Parks verification system was successful, showing that it has a robust management system with clear and well recorded procedures, while the main challenges for PAN Parks are to move from ecology-based criteria to sustainable tourism, according to an internal audit of the verification systems conducted by Xavier Font, from Leeds Metropolitan University.

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