Ken Burns recently toured Mount Desert Island for his PBS documentary, 'The National Parks: America's Best Idea'. Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park are Mount Desert Island's most valuable assets.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) applauded Afghanistan's National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA), which announced today the establishment of the country's first internationally recognized national park.

A fire in the Borrabbin National Park between Southern Cross and Coolgardie Western Australia, so far 29,000 hectares and killed three truck drivers when the convoy they were travelling in was engulf by the flames.