Areas bordering the protected park are dependent on community-led schemes to encourage wildlife.

It aims for 75 per cent of the population to be within a ten-minute walk of a protected park or green space by 2022.

Inholdings result from private ownership of lands prior to the designation of the protected park or forest area, which then end up grandfathered within the legally designated boundary.

Protected parks and forestland constitute most of this.

Wilderness areas and protected parks are considered important for the survival of certain species, ecological studies, conservation, solitude, and recreation.