Image caption Exmoor is one of England"s best-known National Parks National Parks in England have lost millions of pounds of government funding in the past five years, says the Press Association news agency.
Their funding was cut by a quarter from 2011 to 2016, according to an investigation by the agency.
The government is committed to raising parks" budgets between now and 2020.
However, funding in 2020 will be as much as a fifth below 2010 levels, said the study, even before inflation is taken into account.
Among the parks affected were the Peak District, with annual funding cut from £8.3m to £6.3m, and the Lake District from £6.9m to £5.2m.
The investigation found that once inflation was taken into account cuts over the five years were even more severe, at 40% in real terms.
In 2015, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) pledged to increase the direct grant for National Parks by 1.72% a year for most parks up to 2020.
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