NPS / Jacob W. Frank (left), courtesy Peter O’Toole (right)
News Release Day: March 22, 2021
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WASHINGTON – An arrangement signed today in a virtual ceremony establishes Glacier National Park in Montana, Usa, and Killarney Nationwide Park in County Kerry, Ireland, as “sister parks”. The arrangement furthers intercontinental cooperation involving the two countries and facilitates collaboration connected to the administration of these cherished, protected places.
Killarney Countrywide Park, managed by the Countrywide Parks and Wildlife Company of Ireland’s Section of Housing, Area Govt and Heritage, and Glacier Countrywide Park, managed by the U.S. National Park Service, have popular issues which includes large visitation, managing unique and invasive species, outreach with neighborhood communities, ecological checking, and partnership agreements. The parks will share best techniques by way of the trade of technological and skilled understanding, data, technological innovation, coaching, and probable internet site visits.
“I am delighted that my Division – by means of the Nationwide Parks and Wildlife Company – is coming into into a Sister Parks arrangement with U.S. Nationwide Park Services by developing very best tactics and setting up closer hyperlinks among Killarney National Park and Glacier Countrywide Park, Montana. In accomplishing so we will enrich the knowledge and capacity of the personnel of both of those Parks via exchanges of personnel and most effective procedures,” explained Ireland’s Minister for Housing, Nearby Authorities and Heritage Darragh O’Brien.
“The collaborative character of this partnership presents an superb prospect to trade lessons learned connected to recreation, preservation and resource management,” explained Shawn Benge, Deputy Director of the Nationwide Park Company, training the authority of the Director. “We are energized about the opportunities to get the job done together and study from each and every other.”
“From currently, equally Killarney National Park and Glacier Nationwide Park will purpose to capitalise on the substantial networking awareness and sharing possibilities this settlement supports. Presented the natural and cultural assets safeguarded and presented by the two organisations, as effectively as our respective mandates, it is my hope that we use our arrangement as a joint and thus stronger voice to spotlight the worries not only in these two parks but across our nations,” mentioned Ireland’s Minister of State for Heritage at the Section Malcolm Noonan.
“As the world’s initially worldwide peace park with Waterton Lakes Nationwide Park in Canada, Glacier Countrywide Park has a very pleased background of working with companions over and above our borders to trade very best procedures and to understand from just one an additional,” explained Jeff Mow, Glacier Countrywide Park Superintendent. “We seem forward to adding to our historical past and collaborating with Killarney National Park.”
The arrangement lasts for five several years and could be extended or modified by the members. The new sister park romantic relationship joins additional than a few dozen that exist among U.S. nationwide parks and national parks and safeguarded areas in other nations.
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