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===Early references=== Starting in 1735 the [[Kingdom of Naples|Naples government]] undertook laws to protect Natural areas, which could be used as a [[game reserve]] by the royal family; [[Procida]] was the first protected site;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fondazionecariforli.it/downloads/files/3-La-regia-caccia-di-torre-guevara-nel-settecento.pdf|author=Angela de Sario|title=La "Regia Caccia" Di Torre Guevara Nel Settecento|website=Fondazionecariforli.it|access-date=28 February 2022|archive-date=22 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022120321/https://www.fondazionecariforli.it/downloads/files/3-La-regia-caccia-di-torre-guevara-nel-settecento.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> the difference between the many previous royal hunting preserves and this one, which is considered to be closer to a Park rather than a hunting preserve,<ref>Museo privato Agriturismo Maria Sofia di Borbone, Azienda Agricola Le Tre Querce, Seminara, Calabria, organised by the Study Centre for Environmental Education in the Mediterranean Area of Reggio, Italy</ref> is that Neapolitan government already considered the division into the present-day wilderness areas and non-strict nature reserves.{{cn|date=March 2023}} In 1810, the English poet [[William Wordsworth]] described the [[Lake District]] as a "sort of national property, in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy."<ref>{{cite book|last=Wordsworth|first=William|author-link=William Wordsworth|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_idlAAAAAYAAJ|quote=sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy.|title=A guide through the district of the lakes in the north of England with a description of the scenery, &c. for the use of tourists and residents|edition=5th|location=Kendal, England|publisher=Hudson and Nicholson|year=1835|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_idlAAAAAYAAJ/page/n122 88]}}</ref> The painter [[George Catlin]], in his travels through the [[American West]], wrote during the 1830s that [[Native Americans in the United States]] might be preserved "(by some great protecting policy of government) ... in a ''magnificent park'' ... A ''nation's Park'', containing man and beast, in all the wild and freshness of their nature's beauty!"<ref>{{cite book|last=Catlin|first=George|author-link=George Catlin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MA4TAAAAYAAJ&q=%7C%28by+some+great+protecting+policy+of+government%29|title=Letters and Notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians: written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39|volume=1|year=1841|location=Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London|publisher=Published by the author|pages=261β262|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501132843/https://books.google.com/books?id=MA4TAAAAYAAJ&q=%7C(by+some+great+protecting+policy+of+government)#v=snippet&q=%7C(by%20some%20great%20protecting%20policy%20of%20government)&f=false|archive-date=1 May 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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