The West Midlands National Park to lead the region’s green recovery

An initiative led by the immediate Past President of IFLA Professor Kathryn Moore has been formally adopted by the West Midlands Combined Authority. The West Midlands National Park project will be a key component of a post-Covid green economic recovery.

With the youngest, fastest-growing, most diverse population in the UK, the imminent arrival of HS2, the hosting of City of Culture 2021 and the Commonwealth Games, the West Midlands National Park is a unique opportunity to re-discover a vast, hidden landscape that has been largely overlooked and undervalued for decades. A game changer, it will become the benchmark to which others measure against and will demonstrate a truly holistic approach to the management of the environment in the most sustainable way for now and into the future.

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