Tourism in the protection plan of Wielkopolska National Park - case study

Abstract

Protective activities in Wielkopolska National Park take place through the implementation of the protection plan. This document presents the way of making national park areas available for tourism, recreation and sport. According to the Nature Conservation Act for the national park a plan of protection and implementation shall be drawn up and presented by the Park director. The security plan is drawn up for 20 years with regard to: the characterization and assessment of the nature state, the identification and evaluation of existing and potential internal and external threats, characterization and evaluation of social and economic conditions, analysis of the effectiveness of existing methods of protection, characterization and assessment of development. Work on drawing up a security plan consists of: assessment of resources, objects and elements of nature, landscape values, cultural values, existing and potential internal and external threats, developing the concept of conservation, formations and elements of nature and cultural values, as well as the elimination or reduction of existing and potential internal and external threats. The security plan for the national park contains issued like: identification of areas and places available for education, tourism, recreation, sports, amateur fishing and a decision on how they become available. Until the protection plan for the national park is established, the supervisor (i.e. the minister responsible for the environment) draws up draft protection tasks. Leisure and tourism in each national park requires obtaining of certain minimum of culture, regardless of existing legislation and planning documents related to its protection. Protecting the park is also the problem of ethical and aesthetic issues associated with exploring aspects of life in all its richness and desire to know and better understand the world.