Royal park friends say fresh management will increase commercialisation to fund parks and will put wildlife at riskThe tranquility of London’s royal parks,including Hyde Park, Richmond Park, and St James’s Park and Greenwich Park,could be disrupted by a shakeup of their management due later this year, opponents of the changes have said. The capital’s royal parks, or which span 5000 acres of land and attract 77 million visitors a year,are owned by the crown and funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. But a fresh charitable body will buy over their management from the Royal Parks Agency (RPA) this autumn to generate more revenue.
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Source: theguardian.com