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July 29, 2014 - Yosemite National Park welcomed twelve delegation members representing national parks and protected areas in six different countries over the course of this past month.

Yosemite was honored to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Yosemite Grant on June 30th with representatives from Jiuzhaigou National Park in China, Parque Nacional Torres del Paine in Chile, protected areas in Nepal, and protected areas in Mongolia.

The park was equally honored to welcome representatives from Huangshan National Park in China, Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, and Berchtesgaden National Park in Germany throughout July.  

The delegations’ visits were coordinated through Yosemite’s international affairs program, which is composed of employees from the National Park Service and Yosemite’s park partners. The group’s mission includes developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with parks and protected areas around the world for mutual benefit and contribution to enhanced protected area management.

Yosemite National Park currently has three formal sister park arrangements. These collaborative partnerships with Huangshan National Park and Jiuzhaigou National Park in China and Parque Nacional Torres del Paine in Chile have proven to be an excellent exchange of experience and information on complex issues such as visitor use management and climate change.

Yosemite is also collaborating with representatives from parks in Nepal, Tanzania, and Mongolia and intends to establish formal relationships with these parks.

Yosemite’s leadership team has tasked the international affairs working group with creating sister park relationships with at least one park on each continent by 2016. The group is currently exploring potential relationships with parks in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. Yosemite looks forward to all that will be learned through continued and future collaborations. 

Submitted by Ashley Mayer, Public Affairs Officer