Resources for Parks

This page is intended to provide easy links to websites and other resources that will be useful for staff working in protected areas.

The page will develop and grow over time - we would like to include those links that you have found really useful. Across the network of PAN Parks, many of you are working to solve the same issues and problems. Please help your colleagues by sending us useful links and case studies of your solutions.

Send your suggestions to Gavin Bell - Communications Manager

Here are some recommendations from the PAN Parks team...

http://www.panda.org/
http://www.iucn.org/
http://whc.unesco.org/
http://www.europarc.org/international/europarc.html
http://www.nps.gov/parks.html

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/funding/intro_en.htm
http://www.bidnetwork.org/listpublish-36244-en.html

Sustainable tourism and Natura 2000 -Guidelines, initiatives and good practices in Europe
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/library/lib-tourism/index.htm
http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/
http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml

Here are some useful links for interpretation resources

http://www.scotinterpnet.org.uk/pdfs/sofp.pdf   Sense of Place - a handbook of interpretation
http://www.snh.org.uk/wwo/interpretation/default.html  Scottish Natural Heritage have produced a very good resource on interpretation techniques