To be fair that page is a blog post of the announcement of Greater Big Bend earning their endorsement and has a date published of April 2nd, 2022. The new site received certification on March 11th, 2024.
...and what is your point? This means that they had endorsed Big Bend, entered it into their site as a reserve and are now two years later saying that a smaller reserve is the biggest in the world despite the fact that their own website has listed a larger reserve for almost two years! Yes, they can't force people to apply but Big Bend did and it got their endorsement and it is bigger than the new reserve that they are claiming is the largest in the world.
Every stakeholder needs to be committed.
Well it's rather hard to think that the people running this group are very committed given that they don't even seem to be aware of reserves they have already approved.
Dark Sky International isn't saying that Jasper is not a dark sky preserve by not having them designated
That is literally exactly what they are saying if they claim that a smaller preserve is the largest in the world....either that or they are just ignorant not just of Jasper but of the Big Bend reserve that they approved themselves just under two years ago. If they do not take their own approved and posted reserves seriously how can anyone possibly take them seriously?