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image captionCampaigners want to see Galloway become Scotland s third national park
The case for Galloway to become Scotland s third national park has been taken to Holyrood.
It is the latest step in a long-running campaign to acquire the status.
South of Scotland SNP MSP Emma Harper secured the debate on the issue which has enjoyed cross-party support in Dumfries and Galloway.
However, the Scottish government repeated its stance that it has no plans to create any new national parks.
Scotland currently has two national parks, one in the Cairngorms, the other is Loch Lomond and the Trossachs.
Galloway Forest Park. Picture: Shutterstock HOLYROOD is to hear calls for Scotland s third national park to be created in Galloway. SNP MSP Emma Harper said the move could boost physical and mental health as well as benefitting the environment and economy. Campaigners have long called for the creation of more national parks in Scotland to better protect and enhance key rural and coastal areas. The UK boasts 15 national parks but just two – Loch Lomond and The Trossachs and the Cairngorms – are located north of the border. The Scottish Campaign for National Parks (SCNP) and the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland previously identified seven areas for future consideration.
The Old Man of the Mountain lived on an outcrop in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, and was one of the most well-known mimetoliths in the U.S. before it fell in 2003. Libraray of Congress
A common term most first-year psychology students learn is apophenia the human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns in random things, like objects or ideas. There are plenty of ways we see apophenia play out in the real world. Take mimetoliths. A mimetolith is a natural rock feature that resembles a living form in nature usually a face a human head, or animal, geologist Sharon Hill, owner of SpookyGeology.com writes via email. The word was coined by Thomas Orzo MacAdoo but first appeared in print from R. V. Dietrich in 1989. The term is derived from the Greek words