THE CONS OF GLOBALIZATION

Many national parks are being loved to death bogy crowds who visit them annually. Crowded conditions exist in many parks especially close to the urban areas such as Shenandoah, Virginia and the most famous parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite. With these crowds there comes the problem of over use. The national parks and conservation association (NPCA), reported that throughout the mid to late 1980s park visits increased about 4% annually roughly a few million more visits each year. Urban units such as Golden gate National recreation area near San Francisco are under even greater pressure. Visits to these units are increasing at about 10% every year. In 1980, on estimation, 252 million recreations visits to park systems; by the year 2010 the number of visits expected to increase to rise to 500 million. Also due to crowds, the visitors suffer as often campsites litter, noise, traffic jam, water pollution and smog caused by automobile exhaust greet the visitor who come to the park precisely, is escape those conditions. Also crime (especially vandalism) and drug abuse are becoming significant problems in some park units, particularly those near urban areas. The wildlife within the parks gets threatened by diminishing or insufficient habitat, elimination by predators, and poaching. Also some of the parks are too small to support the viable population of large animals. With valuable game species and rare plants rapidly disappearing from the private lands, poachers have set their sights on the national parks. For instance the park rangers in Alaska consider trophy hunting as the chief threat to wildlife in those units and poaching cited by Managers of many parks nationwide as a serious and growing threat.

Targets for poachers include black bear, in the great smoky mountains national parks; grizzly bear, elk, golden eagle in Yellowstone; brow bear wolf and mouse in Alaska Katmai and Denali; wild ginseng a medicinal her in Shenandoah; and the cactus, rare snakes and rare lizards in saguaro and organ pipe national monuments. In recent years, the concessions system has increasingly come under fire. Concessionaires are private business licensed to sell goods and services such as food and hotel spaces in the national park. Facilities in some park units are not well maintained and park visitors often complain in the over commercialization prevalent by some concessionaires diminish the aesthetic quality of the areas. Critics maintain that concessionaires are not required to return a high