Mission
PRINCIPLES
The historical experience shows that, abandoned to the market rules and to the larger or smaller ecological conscience of the economic agents, the natural and cultural resources suffer a progressive and constant damage that affects directly or indirectly the population.
The government has the obligation of preserves this heritage through a sustainable use of the resources, so that activities that are being develop at present will not affect the future and collective interests will be protected.
The National State must keep, develop and manage a Protected Areas National System (SNAP), as an important conservation tool to maintain biological diversity, and natural and cultural argentinean heritage.
The Administración de Parques Nacionales of Argentina is the organization that conserves –with national and international projection- the biological and cultural diversity of the protected areas under its jurisdiction.

 

 Mission
GOALSThe Administración de Parques Nacionales works in favour of an integral development oriented to a sustainable use of the resources, to the value creation, and the incorporation of the society in its labour. The principal objectives are:

Conserve biodiversity and ecosystem
National Parks maintain large and representative native ecosystems areas. The progressive knowledge of the relationship between their components makes us conserve the flora and fauna variety, and the natural process that caused them.

Preserve cultural diversity
National Parks accumulate the different ways in which men relations to the nature, in the past but also at present. It is a heritage of all the society and must be protected because of its social and cultural value.

Protect species in danger of extinction habitats
National Parks conserves both species that are in danger of extinction and the ones that would be in that situation.

Promote education and recreation
Because of the fact that National Parks have comforts for visitors and high quality places, they constitute ideal places for environmental education and recreation. Promote these principles is a relevant task.

Give an incentive to investigation
National Parks are ideal areas to develop scientific studies. So that the Administration signs agreements with investigation centre, provides installations in the Parks and contributes its technical staff to collaborate in each protected area.

Preserve great natural stages
The National Parks system includes very beautiful and great places with unique cultural value. Their integral conservation is a priority for our labour.

Protect paleontological sites
Protect fossil sites guarantee their investigation in the future and their diffusion between the scientific community and the society in general.