Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes National Park

The National Park is one of the Protected Natural Areas (NPAs) that are designated or managed within an international, community, national or local framework with a view to achieving specific natural heritage conservation objectives. A national park is a vast protected land or marine area with exceptional natural, cultural and landscape heritage. Its objectives are the protection and management of biodiversity and cultural heritage, good governance and welcoming audiences. A national park is traditionally composed of two areas: the heart of the park and a membership area National park cores are defined as the land and/or maritime areas to be protected. There is strict regulation and priority is given to the protection of environments, species, landscapes and heritage. National park cores are part of the protected areas primarily covered by the strategy for the creation of protected areas. They usually correspond to category IUCN II. A national park membership area is defined as all or part of the territory of the municipalities which, having a vocation to be part of the national park due in particular to their geographical continuity or their ecological solidarity with the heart, have decided to adhere to the charter of the national park and voluntarily contribute to this protection. The membership area is determined by the effective accession of the municipalities (while the decree establishing the national park mentions an optimal area of membership). When the membership area is a marine area, it is also designated as the adjacent marine area of the national park. An area of accession is intended to be an exemplary space for sustainable development.Membership areas are classified as IUCN V. Legal references: Articles L.331-1 to L.331-29 and R.331-1 to R.331-85 of the Environmental Code. For more information, see ATEN [4]: http://ct78.espaces-naturels.fr/parc-national The protected natural areas in the project are not included in this dataset.