A national park is a reserve of natural or semi-natural land, declared or owned by a government A government is the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises its authority, controls and administers public policy, and directs and controls the actions of its members or subjects, set aside for human recreation and enjoyment, animal and environmental protection and restricted from most development. While ideas for national parks had been suggested previously, what is held to be the first one established was the United States' Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though it also extends into Montana and Idaho. The Yellowstone was the first national park in the world, and is known for its wildlife and its many, established in 1872. An international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature The International Union for Conservation of Nature is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation (IUCN), and its World Commission on Protected Areas The World Commission on Protected Areas is one of six Commissions of the IUCN (World Conservation Union). WCPA is the world's premier network of protected area expertise. It is administered by IUCN's Programme on Protected Areas and has over 1,400 members, spanning 140 countries, has defined National Parks as its category II type of protected areas Protected areas are locations which receive protection because of their environmental value, or environmental plus cultural values. Examples include parks, nature reserves, and wildlife sanctuaries. Not included in the term are historic sites such as buildings that do not include natural environmental aspects, but some are "cultural. The largest national park A park is a protected area, in its natural or semi-natural state, or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment, or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. It may consist of rocks, soil, water, flora and fauna and grass areas in the world meeting the IUCN definition is the Northeast Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest national park in the world, with an area of 972,000 square kilometres , making the park larger than 163 countries. It is also the only national park in Greenland, and the most northerly national park in the world, its most northerly point reaching slightly further than the most northerly point in, which was established in 1974. According to the IUCN, there are about 7000 national parks worldwide (2010 figure)[1].
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