Two more Italian national parks have joined the Gran Paradiso park in the world green list drawn up by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.

They are the National Park of the Tuscan Archipelago and the national park of the Casentinesi Forests. The IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas is the first global standard of best practice for area-based conservation.