Translations:Nature & Protected Areas/12/en

Consent and autonomy deserve explicit mention. An isolated setting reduces the presence of bystanders, which changes the social dynamic. Anyone should be able to leave at any point, and arrangements that make leaving difficult, such as shared transport to a remote location on a first meeting, warrant thought in advance. Meeting first in a populated area and moving on together is a widely described approach.

| Reality=Reality Check. Several assumptions recur. The first is that nature areas are unregulated. In practice, protected land is often the most tightly regulated public space a person will enter, and the absence of visible signage does not indicate the absence of rules.