National Parks combine to draw children outdoors

Scotland’s two National Parks, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, covering part of Argyll and Cairngorms have combined to create and share a new job. The move has been made in conjunction wit Learning and Teaching Scotland.

This is targeted on encouraging and enabling children to experience Scotland’s great outdoors and is an initiative with the potential to impact on national health and tourism.

Children who grow up familiar with Scotland’s greatest resource – its countryside – will share it with their friends, talk about it and introduce their own children to it from a position of personal knowledge.

This joint action suggests taking a look at the wisdom of setting up a single authority for Scotland’s National Parks. At the moment there are two separate and massive Boards, representing a significant expense whose efficiency is questionable anyway and particularly so today.