England’s national parks overseen by ‘bloated’, mostly white male boards

Exclusive: Campaigners call for overhaul as Guardian investigation shows nature rarely on agenda

• How national parks failed nature - and how to fix them

The boards that oversee England's national parks are bloated, dominated by men and are severely lacking in diversity, a Guardian analysis has found. The analysis also found that farmers outnumber conservation experts by two to one, nature is rarely on the agenda at board meetings and only one national park can account for the ownership of all the land it covers.

Campaigners said a major overhaul of how national parks were governed was fundamental" to the recovery of nature in the parks and to serving the public, for whom they were set up.