National parks need dedicated management to handle increasing visitor numbers

Killarney National Park: Ireland's six national parks need dedicated managers.

Ireland's six national parks each need a dedicated manager to handle the ever-expanding influx of visitors, in the face of the  biodiversity crisis, experts have said.

A key finding of the as-yet unpublished review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) — which was handed to the Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage back in June — was that the six national parks were relying on management by staff who are also occupied with other wide-ranging duties.