NATIONAL PARK

NATIONAL PARK
 National park (disambiguation).

NATIONAL PARK

Bogd Khan Uul National Park, Mongolia. One of the earliest preserved areas now called a national park.
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 (WCPA), has defined "National Park" as its Category II type of protected areas.