If there is a good balance between the needs of a man and the needs of nature, there should be few problems. But there are too many of us, all wanting too much and taking too much from the natural world. So something needs to be done. The balance needs to be restored. Conservation should allow positive changes to take place while, at the same time, trying to look after what we have.
Conservation concerns people all over the world.
Hundreds of books, magazines and reports are written about it. We could discuss the conservation of all sorts of things, but in this factsheet we will talk about conservation in a British National Park - in particular the Lake District National Park. The history of the setting up of the ten National Parks in England and Wales in the 1950s is an interesting one - but it is also lengthy and complicated. There are other factsheets available which outline the history. Here, it is enough to say that the Government in power in the late 1940s and 1950s realised that Britain contained beautiful and unique country areas which could be enjoyed by the thousands of people living in cities and industrial towns.