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<\/a>John Muir<\/p><\/div>The head of the United States National Parks, Jonathan B. Jarvis, and author and champion of the rewilding movement, George Monbiot, are among a range of international experts on landscape and nature who will address the John Muir Conference 2014 in Perth this spring.<\/p>\n
The event, in Perth Concert Hall on 12-13 May, will explore innovative solutions for the protection and enhancement of the UK\u2019s most important landscapes, and examine the relevance of Muir\u2019s visionary principles in the 21st century.<\/p>\n
The conference, hosted by a group of six landscape, nature and heritage organisations, with the support of the Scottish Government as part of its Year of Homecoming, comes at a time of growing interest in the management of national parks and protected areas. <\/p>\n
Stuart Brooks, the chief executive of the John Muir Trust, said: \u201cWe are delighted to be part of this ground-breaking conference which we hope will contribute to a national debate on how we protect our wild places, in the centenary year of John Muir\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis conference will provide a platform to share some excellent and innovative approaches to management of our protected areas and also a place where new ideas and challenges to the status quo can be debated. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an old saying that a prophet is never honoured in his own country, but it is heartening that the prophet of wild land, a son of East Lothian, is now recognised as one of Scotland\u2019s national heroes. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe can still learn a great deal from him and it would be a fitting legacy to carry forward his campaign to protect wild places in the land of his birth.\u201d<\/p>\n
The conference organisers say the event is aimed primarily at people who: work in landscape and protected areas policy; are managers of protected areas; are major stakeholders within protected areas; or are in involved in governance of protected areas. More details on the 2 day event can be found on the conference website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The head of the United States National Parks, Jonathan B. Jarvis, and author and champion of the rewilding movement, George Monbiot, are among a range of international experts on landscape and nature who will address the John Muir Conference 2014 in Perth this spring. The event, in Perth Concert Hall on 12-13 May, will explore innovative solutions for the protection and enhancement of the UK\u2019s most important landscapes, and examine the relevance of Muir\u2019s visionary principles in the 21st century. The conference, hosted by a group of six landscape, nature and heritage organisations, with the support of the Scottish Government…<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10352,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351\/revisions\/10352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}