After eight years volunteering as backcountry hosts in Kakwa Provincial Park, Bev and Bill Ramey find it difficult to pick one of the multiple highlights of their experiences. When we spoke with them about their time in Kakwa, they remarked: “the opportunity to live in a wilderness setting for weeks at a time each summer …
Around the world, protected area agencies are challenging the “paper parks” phenomenon – i.e., when new areas are designated as parks but receive little or no resources for implementation. This is in response to growing concern about the effectiveness of protected areas in meeting objectives such as biodiversity conservation and has led to initiatives to …