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Geography Professor Stephen Cunha has published a book chapter on the origin and worldwide diffusion of national parks. In it, he explores how the American idea of preserving wild landscapes took shape in 1864 when Yosemite Valley and a nearby grove of Giant Sequoias were set aside as Yosemite State Park. During the next century the idea of protecting and conserving natural environments spread over much of the world. Broadly speaking, parks and other protected areas of one sort or another are now found in 95 percent of the world’s countries.
Geography Professor Stephen Cunha has published a book chapter on the origin and worldwide diffusion of national parks. In it, he explores how the American idea of preserving wild landscapes took shape in 1864 when Yosemite Valley and a nearby grove of Giant Sequoias were set aside as Yosemite State Park. During the next century the idea of protecting and conserving natural environments spread over much of the world. Broadly speaking, parks and other protected areas of one sort or another are now found in 95 percent of the world’s countries.