Canada's Newest: Mealy Mountains National Park

Welcome, Canada'a newest, and largest Atlantic national park! The Mealy Mountains National Park is located in Newfoundland and Labradour, and is 11,000 square kilometers! Newfoundland offers Canada a vast variety of culture, scenary, and wildlife, and the Mealy Mountains National Park captures it all. Providing locals and tourists the opportunity to wittness threatened woodland, caribou herd, moose, black bear, ospery, bald eagles, and a threatened population of harlequin ducks, this newly renound National Park is an asset to Canada.

National Parks are meant to be protected and presserved. The parks are a haven for the endangered species and thousands of different trees and plants. However, in this case, the locals within the region are permitted to continue to cut wood for personal use, hunt, trap and fish; although no new developments will be approved within these protected grounds.

I strongly support heritage, personal values, and maintaining a healthy, independant lifestyle; but allowing people to continue about their regular ways in a protected ground does not make sense to me. Why would the government label these grounds as a National Park while still allowing people to hunt, trap, and fish, considering the number of endangered species that lay within these boundaries? National parks, fish, animals, trees, etc, are all considered natural resources. In most cases, natural resources are overconsumed as they are non excludable. To me, Mealy Mountains National Park will not be a National Park, until the grounds are completely protected, and hunting is banned.

To learn more about Canada's newest National Park, go to:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVnews/20100205/national_park_100206/20100206?hub=Canada