Paanajärvi NP © Viktor

Gritsuk

Zoltan Kun, Executive DirectorPAN Parks Foundation

PROTECTING EUROPE’S WILDERNESSFrom peaks to coast

Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk

Who we are

Photo: Simon Kertys© Bruno D’Amicis

PAN Parks is the only European-wide organisation focusing on the protection of wilderness areas

Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk

What we do

PAN Parks works to protect Europe’s wilderness, the continent’s most undisturbed areas of nature

Archipelago NP © Seppo Keränen

The Million ProjectTo ensure guaranteed protection of 1 million hectares of wilderness in Europe by 2015

Our collective plan to lift wilderness protection in Europe

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Over 560 000 ha of wilderness by 8 October 2012

Wilderness momentum

• European Parliament’s special report on wilderness• European Commission- ‘Agenda for Wilderness’• Wilderness in Biodiversity Strategy

What we have achieved so far

European Wilderness Preservation System

Paanajärvi NP © PNP Archives

Conservation success

Kure Mountains National Park become the first wilderness in the PAN Parks Network in Turkey15 years of hard workLarge wilderness zone

Retezat NP © Mihai Moiceanu

Incredible biodiversity

Paanajärvi NP ©Viktor Gritsuk

Beautiful unspoiled nature

Borjomi-Kharagauli NP © Kote Gabrichidze

Wilderness for people - people for wilderness

PAN Parks works to protect

Europe’s wilderness, the

continent’s most undisturbed

areas of nature

www.panparks.org