Jeff Shea is a well-traveled man. One could say so because he has journeyed all over the world with routes he himself created -- all because he treats travel as "sacred" to "expand his mind and his horizons." His organization World Parks intends to preserve the natural beauty of each country of the world not just as a "national" responsibility but a global one.
In an interview with BBC, Shea said the idea of a "world park" is to preserve a wild location where "a ranger or tickets is not needed to get in." The goal of world parks is to avoid the industrialization of the world where Shea said there could be "an absolute loss of freedom in the human race" because "we'll forget what it was like to be wild and free.
All the continents of the world and its countries would see these declared World Parks as international property that the community must collectively protect. Any person regardless of nationality could access them, regardless of national rules on immigration.
Continuing his interview in the BBC, the motive for his idea comes from everything he had seen during his travels including his climbs in the world's highest peaks and discoveries of new lands. Shea is also a self-described traveler, philosopher, photographer and adventurer who loves to break his limits because he believes them as "part of freedom and happiness" and a "balance" needed to be ultimately happy.
According to travel blogger J. Lee Hazlett, Jeff Shea was someone who trekked on his own to be one of the first international travelers to find the "tepuis" of La Pragua in Venezuela. Shea described the tepuis he and a team of both locals and travelers did not have "roads and infrastructure." He said it sparked the idea for preserving "World Parks" because it is in "the middle of nowhere" but it is beautiful.
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