National park National Park in 1914. The UK waited until 1951 for the designation of its first national park, The Peak District National Park which sits at the southern end of the Pennine Hills surrounded by industrial cities. This followed perhaps 70 years of pressure for greater public access to the landscape. By the end of the decade a further 9 national parks had been designated. Europe has some 359 national parks as of 2010. Africa's first national park was established in 1925 when Albert I of Belgium designated an area of what is now Democratic Republic of Congo centred on the
Mount Buffalo National Park Buffalo sallee, is found on higher granite outcrops. Other endemic plants are "Grevillea alpivaga" (Buffalo grevillea), "Acacia phlebophylla" (Buffalo sallow wattle), and "Babingtonia crenulata" (fern-leaf baeckea). The rare "Pratia gelida", snow pratia, occurs in a small area on Hospice Plain. Grazing was excluded from the park in 1957, one of the earliest exclusions of this activity in any alpine park. Weed species, particularly Himalayan honeysuckle, yarrow and blackberries, pose a continuing management challenge. Mount Buffalo National Park is also home to an enormous diversity of fungi. Fungi are ecologically important and megadiverse, yet their significance in underpinning the terrestrial ecology