Make parks ‘wilder’

NATIONAL parks need wilder areas to boost declining wildlife, campaigners have urged ahead of the 70th anniversary of the first designated park.

The Government should adopt recommendations in an independent review of national parks that called for them to have wilder areas to help restore nature, campaign group Rewilding Britain said.

The call comes as the Peak District National Park marks its 70th anniversary tomorrow as the first UK national park, designated on April 17, 1951.