A world network of nature
More than 1500 in the world, nearly 200 in Europe, 7 in France: the national parks form a world network of spaces devoted to nature, carrying our origins and our future, places privileged for scientific, teaching and entertaining activities. The first, that of Yellowstone, was created into 1872 in the U.S.A. Sweden follows this example in 1909. After the second world war, an awakening is done in France: Vanoise and Port-Cros are born in 1963, the Guadeloupe, the last-born, in 1989. Thirty years after the birth of Vanoise, the assessment is positive: the biological and landscape diversity of these protected spaces, where nature opens out with complete freedom, is the proof! That is why the creation of other national parks is being studied.

A memory for the future
A national park is:
An exceptional territory: a landscape, ecological and cultural inheritance. A legal and social space divided into 2 zones with specific attributions, that are central and peripheral.
Professionals of nature who exert a team work within the framework of a complementarity: guard-monitors, scientists, communicators,, managers. Goals: to protect nature, the landscapes, the sites and biological diversity in the spaces managed by the park; to place the "inheritance park" at the disposal of the public of today and to transmit it to the future generations; to take part in the development of behaviors of respect towards nature and its balances. .

A behavior for each park
The national park regulation is careful to prevent all works and modifications susceptible of impairing the character of the park;; it also forbids the abandonment of rubbish, the wild animal disruption, the introduction of the dogs the circulation of vehicles motor-driven out of road, withdrawals, fire, the camping, fire arms, hunt. Specific Limitations to each park come in complement (1). In fact, this regulation concerns a code of good conduct which is connected quite simply with a form of good citizenship adapted to the environment. To crown it, isn't it the condition and the guarantee of the freedom of each one?

The seven National natural parcks :

National park of the Cevennes
National Park of Ecrins
National park of Guadeloupe
National Park of Mercantour
National Park of Port-Cros
National Park of the Pyrenees
National Park of Vanoise